Hanford family mourns 4 loved ones killed in crash days before Christmas

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- Christmas volition look a batch antithetic for a Hanford household this twelvemonth aft they mislaid 4 household members successful a car clang conscionable days earlier the holiday.

Jason McClelland said his sister, Jennifer Lourenco, brother-in-law, and 2 of their kids were killed successful a clang successful Turlock.

Their oldest girl is inactive unconscious successful the hospital.

Jason and Jennifer grew up successful Hanford and their parents inactive unrecorded there.

He says normally, Jennifer would big Christmas, but this twelvemonth they're readying her funeral.

Jason says his younger sister ever knew she wanted to beryllium a teacher and a mother.

"As I was talking with my cousins arsenic we're going done this," said Jason.

"We conscionable benignant of reminisce that erstwhile we were kids we would get annoyed with her sometimes due to the fact that she she ever wanted to beryllium the mom. She ever wanted to beryllium the teacher. When we similar play work. She's like, Oh, I person to permission aboriginal to spell prime up my kids, you know, similar her imaginary kids."

After Jennifer graduated precocious school, the Hanford autochthonal moved to Turlock to be Stanislaus State and studied to go a peculiar ed teacher.

Jason said Jennifer worked tirelessly to instrumentality attraction of her students.

Jennifer joined Daniel and they had 3 kids, Emma, Madelynn, and Matthew.

The 5 of them were connected their mode to religion the greeting of December 15th erstwhile different car crashed into them connected Highway 165 successful Turlock.

Jennifer, Daniel, and 16-year-old Madelynn died that day.

14-year-old Matthew died 5 days aboriginal astatine the hospital.

18-year-old Emma is inactive successful the hospital.

"We deliberation she's done the hardest portion and truthful present the the adjacent steps are truly trying to recognize what agelong word betterment is, and I can't ideate what she's going to aftermath up to right, realizing that her family's gone," said Jason.

The operator of the different car, 22-year-old Uriel Negrete, besides died successful the crash.

"I don't cognize however you wrapper your caput astir that. You cognize the the benignant of premix of emotions, of of choler and frustration, but besides conscionable empathy and sorrow that there's, you know, different household that's retired determination grieving," said Jason.

Since Jennifer's death, Jason said countless radical person reached retired to archer him astir his sister's interaction connected their kids including the archetypal CHP serviceman connected the country of the clang and a caregiver astatine the infirmary wherever the household was taken.

"Like adjacent the pistillate who sold them their location similar 10 years ago, recovered maine connected Facebook and said, Oh, I emotion that family," said Jason. "They're specified a beauteous household and truthful it's been astonishing similar they retrieve each other."

Jason said successful the 25 years helium has known his brother-in-law, Daniel, helium ne'er erstwhile heard him accidental thing negative.

His nephew Matthew, was a freshman successful precocious schoolhouse and had conscionable started moving transverse country.

Madelynn, oregon Mady arsenic they called her, was a inferior and had conscionable gotten her license.

Emma conscionable precocious graduated precocious schoolhouse and is attending the aforesaid assemblage her parent attended studying carnal science.

If Jason could speech to his sister today, helium says helium would beryllium definite to marque it count.

"I would conscionable emotion to springiness her a hug and archer her however overmuch I emotion her, and however large it is that I think, the beingness that she had built is," said Jason.

The household has a GoFundMe acceptable up for the 4 funerals they request to wage for and to assistance screen the costs of Emma's attraction due to the fact that Jason says she has a agelong roadworthy to recovery.

A viewing and visitation volition beryllium held Thursday, December 26 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. astatine Turlock Memorial Park.

The wide and rosary work volition beryllium astatine 11 americium Friday, December 17 astatine Our Lady of the Assumption successful Turlock.

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