Mourners pack funeral for 4 siblings who drowned during church picnic
Saturday, July 15, 2006
ST. LOUIS -- Nearly a thousand mourners packed an inner-city church Friday to remember four siblings, who, along with a fifth child, drowned during a church picnic on the Meramec River in eastern Missouri as they tried to save a friend.
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