The 19 children killed in the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, are buried in personalized coffins with images of Superman , princesses and even TikTok paraphernalia.
The coffins are made and donated by Trey Ganem of SoulShine Industries, based in Edna, Texas, who has already delivered practically all of them, reported CNN.
Ganem said he was contacted by the Texas Funeral Directors Association to make the custom caskets, so he took action with his son of 25 years to assemble, design and deliver all caskets to funeral homes.
“The caskets were purchased through a company in Georgia and worked for 20 hours in a row to produce them”, according to the report.
Ganem says that he met with relatives of the victims, so that they selected the designs and personalized themes taking into account account the personality d of the child, which is why there are some with images of superheroes, such as Superman and Spider-Man, softball, princesses, dinosaurs, etc.
“We paint each one to measure. We completely disassembled the casket and painted the hardware, painted the bars,” Ganem said of how the caskets were produced. That is to say, not only do they have a sticker attached.
The funeral services will be different days, those of Amerie Jo Garza and Maite Rodríguez, aged 11 years old, went on Monday.
Each box has an approximate production cost of between $3,400 and $3,800 dollars, but the parents will not cover this expense, which has been covered between donations and the company where Ganem works.
“God always takes care of us”, said the expert, who began this work 11 years ago, through which he has made coffins for the victims of the Sutherland Springs and Las Vegas mass shootings.
He even made the box for the murdered US Army soldier Vanessa Guillén.
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