Help for Ms.Carolyn's Family!

Ladies:

Carolyn Holder’s family suffered a terrible tragedy yesterday. Her sister’s apartment caught on fire and her 5 year old niece died. The family has lost everything. As most of you know, Carolyn has run the NYO program at St Joan of Arc for many years and has lovingly cared for many of our children. What ever the St. Joan of Arc community can do to help this family would be greatly appreciated.

Please consider financial donations to help cover the funeral expenses and donations of clothing for the family. They need clothes for Carolyn’s sister, 17 year old niece and her 4 month old daughter. Women’s clothing size 18 and 14, and infant clothing size 3 - 6 months would be very helpful. Later they will need household items.

Please contact Kelly Mosley at 283-9191 or 557-8051 if you would like to donate anything. Also, please keep Carolyn’s family in your thoughts and prayers.

Thank you,


Margaret Graves
926-1262
652-3774

Lesley Bartone at: lesley_bartone@att.net
Denetria Kent at:denetriakent@yahoo.com

Thank You

Lesley Bartone

Child dies in Lawrence Township fire

Chris Proffitt/Eyewitness News
Lawrence - Family members are mourning the loss of a five-year-old girl after fire tore through their house. But they're also praising neighbors after the dramatic rescue of a four-month-old child who was sleeping in the same home.
The fire broke out around midnight at the Cottages of Fall Creek near 56th Street just west of I-465.
The girl awoke just after midnight in her family's apartment to warn her sleeping mother of the fire. Within a matter of minutes, she was found dead by firefighters after hiding in a bathtub.
Four others in the apartment managed to escape.
"I'm so full of pain for her. It's one thing to lose your apartment - but to lose a child, there's just no words," said Regina Hollingsworth, neighbor.
The child's mother suffered second-degree burns from a fire that investigators believe was electrical and near a computer. Firefighters say an initial search for the child was hampered by the cluttered apartment.
The woman's 16-year-old daughter and her four-month-old baby were also in the apartment. Neighbors say the teenage girl, desperate and trapped upstairs, threw the baby out the window to a neighbor waiting below. Suffering burns to her arms and back, she then jumped to safety.
"Can you imagine that mother's fear to throw that four-month-old baby down the window to some people down below. I think they did catch her, certainly broke that child's fall. And then she jumped herself. Those actions certainly saved her own life and that infant's," said Lawrence Township Deputy Fire Chief Dick Groves.
The girl and her baby also suffered smoke inhalation in a tragedy that one neighbor said could have been prevented.
Fire investigators are still trying to determine whether the apartment had a working smoke detector.

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