© Associated Press/Chuck BurtonDaniel Morrison holds a photo of his parents, Randolph and Barbara Morrison, in front of his home Thursday in Statesville, N.C. Randolph and Barbara Morrison were two of six members of Front Street Baptist Church who were killed when their bus crossed a highway median and crashed Wednesday in Tennessee.
The small town of Statesville, N.C., was in mourning Thursday, a day after six members of Front Street Baptist Church were killed and 12 others were injured when their bus overturned on an East Tennessee interstate.
"My prayers are with all of them and my faith is in God, but this is definitely going to be a grieving community, the Rev. Jeff Luxon, the church's former senior care pastor,
told The Statesville Record & Landmark.With Front Street's senior pastor in Tennessee to be with his congregants, Luxon made sure he was at the church after he heard the news.
"I had some great friends on that bus, and I'm sure knew all of them who were members of the church," Luxon said.
The church members on the bus were part of Front Street's Young at Heart group for senior citizens, who were returning from a Christian conference in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The dead ranged in age from 62 to 95.
"I knew probably everybody who was on the bus," said Emmy Miller, a member of the church.
"They would want us to know they are in a better place now," Miller told the
Record & Landmark. "We all know God is in charge and that this will make us stronger. That's what Front Street is all about."
Comment: The U.S. is so hystericized that a dental assistant in her car with her daughter can be summarily executed with no questions asked.