A Request for Prayers

It is every parents's nightmare:  to bury their child.  Yet that was the sad, sad duty of Gary and Dana McQuiston of Pulaski, Lawrence County, yesterday.  Their 15 year old son, Shane, was killed in an automobile accident in Lawrence County last Friday evening, January 4.  He was a passenger in a pickup truck with a friend driving, when a deer struck the truck, drove it off the road, and into a creek.  The truck was upside down in 3 1/2 feet of water, in which Shane drowned.  

http://www.ncnewsonline.com/schools/x964866745/-Emotional-Night-Wilmington-mourns-young-crash-victim

http://www.ncnewsonline.com/schools/x2056576515/Tragedy-heroics-Teen-driver-in-fatal-crash-may-owe-life-to-vigilant-off-duty-officer

http://www.ncnewsonline.com/update/x1633447471/Teen-s-death-in-crash-attributed-to-drowning

By all accounts Shane was a bright, active and well-liked kid.  He played on the golf team, raised a cow in his backyard, and enjoyed the close company of his dad for outdoor activities.  More than 2,000 classmates, friends and family waited in line for as long as two hours on Wednesday evening outside the funeral home to offer their sympathy, condolences and prayers to Shane's parents, sister, and grandparents.  The Wilmington Area High School, where Shane was a sophomore, brought 180 of his classmates to the funeral Mass at St. Vitus Church yesterday.  Shane played trumpet in the band, and in his memory the brave trumpeters played "Amazing Grace" as his casket was brought into the church.  Over 400 came to the Mass and prayed for Shane and with his family.

Please pray for the McQuiston family as they "grieve the loss of one so young."

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, 

and let your perpetual light shine on him.

 May he rest in your loving peace.