Posted on 06/22/2016 3:21:06 PM PDT by NYer
A private funeral service has been held in Nebraska after fatal alligator attack at Disney World last week
The funeral of a two-year-old boy killed in an alligator attack in Florida has been held at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Nebraska.
Lane Thomas Graves was on holiday with his family at the Disney World resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida when he was dragged into a lagoon by an alligator.
The boy’s father attempted to fight the beast off but was unable to rescue his son who subsequently drowned.
A Mass service was held in Lane’s hometown of Omaha on Monday in a private ceremony for family and friends.
According to the church’s website, the Graves family are members of the St. Patrick’s community and the boy’s older sister, Ella, attends their school.
A statement from Lane’s parents, Matt and Melissa, was also published on the church website. The couple write: “[We] are overwhelmed with the support and love we have received from family and friends in our community as well as from around the country.”
The family have set up the Lane Thomas Foundation in his memory. On the foundation website his parents say: “Losing Lane has broken our hearts in the worst possible way. While there is no way to mend our hearts, we can do good work in his honour.”
Donations received will go to a range of local charities in Omaha.
Oh, no!
I don’t know anything about listening to people who have lived next to ‘bodies of water’! Not the 10 years I lived on the Atlantic Ocean - especially during Sandy when I lived without electricity for two months and was forced to take my laundry to the Red Cross and eat my dinners cooked over my fireplace or forest afield where my mother lived. She who resented my taking up of her precious gas furnace!
I have news for jackasses like you, kaila, some of us have two homes and many different experiences in life over many decades.
Educate yourself.
As I am sitting in my sail boat in the San Juan islands, listening to a New Yorker educate me about water issues is laughable. You suffered during a storm, big deal. When you have sailed, surfed and scuba dived in the ocean, then you might have something to say.
You sanctimoniously blame the parents for this tragedy. The jackass is not me.
A child was killed by an alligator, and you blame the parents. Have some empathy.
How many on FR, how many Christians in the US, followed this story very closely, and yet never stood outside an abortion clinic in equal horror? I don’t want to point fingers, but I want Christians to stand at the abortion mills in their neighborhoods for some time each week or month.
You are right. I have been at that exact spot many times. It was created to look like a shore line. The toddler was at the water’s edge, with father close by. No one was swimming.
By the grace of God, this wasn’t one of my grandchildren. My daughter and her family live right next to DisneyWorld and have taken many Friday evening strolls right there.
Who cares whether you sit on an island or on your own fat
self-satisfied ass?
The fact of the matter is that you assume I live only in Manhattan when I live also on the dangerous shore of the Atlantic Ocean. An ocean that can turn on a dime as it did three years ago and I was witness to people’s houses being destroyed and others begging for money outside of my local 711. I was lucky; my fellow citizens were not and I gave out many dollars to help them out of their appalling situation while you lived in Obama land.
Have fun on your sailboat, a**hole. Some of us live in Realville.
Wow, I really got under your skin. Swearing , too Miss New York. Going to the theater tonight?
Yes, I’m sure going to the theater tonight is outside your entire life experience as going to an art museum or reading a book that wasn’t by Stephen King or JK Rowlings.
Just like an elitist New Yorker. If you don’t live in NY or LA you are an uneducated person. The rest of us in fly over country are hicks in your opinion. And you elitists think you know it all.
By the way, I am college educated and have been to the Louvre and Hermitage museum, just a few I have been to around the world.
But I know, we are not NY swells.
I’m so impressed! You’ve been to the Louvre! I’ll best you even said: “Gee, that Mona Lisa thing looks kinda lost among all those big paintings!”
Talk about getting off point from a gator eating a kid and their parents ignoring signs to keep out of the water.
But why expect an overly emotional person like you to keep to the point?
In your elite NY world , you have no concept of reality. I am a pediatric nurse. I have seen kids get killed or horribly injured by accidents. Sometimes the accidents are caused by dumb decisions. Sometimes they are caused by events out of their control. Have you ever consoled a grieving parent? Probably not in your theater world, except for a make believe play.
I really took offense to your blaming the parents for the tragedy of their lives.Bad things happen to good people, and sitting on a judgemental throne like you are is wrong.
Goodbye, take off your blinders to the real world.
Please do not judge all NY Staters by the NYC crowd.
We’re not all like that.
Most of NYS, outside of NYC and known as Upstate, is very rural if not downright desolate in many places. We understand what living in the natural world is like.
What a precious face.
And what a tragedy.
I don’t think that putting up signs warning of alligators would cause most young children to worry or be afraid.
Kids the age of this one can’t read anyway, so there’d be no issues.
And the ones who can need to learn appropriate caution.
The world cannot be made a perfectly safe place and you can teach children reasonable caution without instilling fear in them.
Now you’re a victim and have to bring out all your bona fides, lol, along with accounts of your visits to the Fabrege Egg collection at the Hermitage.
Sorry, you’re either an American Cup champion a la Ted Turner or you’re a pediatric nurse - depending, I guess, who you are talking to or fighting with. Personally, I could not give a damn what you do or what you are doing.
I only care that parents wake up and know that Florida has endless manmade and fresh water lakes and should not allow their children anywhere near them. And not to sue, in destructive American fashion, when they make terrible mistakes.
And after that: BUZZ OFF!
I agree. Not to mention this has happened before and there was a lawsuit over alligator grabbing an 8 year old- but his siblings were able to get him free. It was on the news last week. The parents won the lawsuit.
Disney knew, they just didn’t want the signs on the beach, lakes to ruin the aesthetics of the resorts.
If you look at my posting history you will know that I am a nurse. You have issues. Go see Hamilton, it might settle you down
Don’t forget - there are not swamps, alligators, ocean, etc. in Nebraska. People come to new situations without the understanding of possible dangers. Here in Los Angeles, we have the beach and high mountains too. Folks are always being rescued from both, because they are both dangerous without care.
I think they should not have been swimming in the dark (!), in posted no-swimming area, and also that Disney should fence it off there, but I think one of the variables is out-of-towners. Terrible. Lord, let this draw the family closer to each other and closer to you.
-alagators should be hunted down to extinction good for nothing but to killt
Good reply. I was thinking of a way to explain that humans do not become angels when they die, being entirely different creatures, but you said it beautifully.
No, but I've seen hookers on Harbor Blvd.
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