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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Hundreds gathered astatine Clovis Hills Community Church to retrieve 16-year-old Trevyn Mackey Tuesday.
He died after crashing his car connected Nov. 26, leaving down a brokenhearted family.
The community donated astir $70,000 to the household for ceremonial expenses. They accidental each the remaining wealth volition spell to Trevyn's siblings.
He wore the ‘52’ jersey connected Clovis West High School’s shot team, and his teammate Cayden Melton says Trevyn took younger players nether his wing.
He describes Trevyn arsenic “loving, benignant and helium was a precise large friend.”
Those who attended Tuesday’s work were asked to deterioration sweatshirts oregon jerseys to correspond Trevyn’s emotion for simplicity.
“The interaction helium made volition everlastingly resonate with us," said Clovis Hills Community Church Pastor Gordon Hall.
Trevyn’s household says helium was ever the archetypal to archer radical helium loved them, and that emotion drew hundreds to the memorial service.
“It's not casual to marque consciousness of a nonaccomplishment similar this. There are nary words that tin afloat seizure the symptom that this household feels, the emptiness that we each experience. Yet we spot that God is with america successful this moment, that He's continuing to comfortableness and heal,” Hall said.
In a oversea of grief, the household says anticipation is their anchor.
“The Bible says that we are not to sorrow similar those who bash not person hope… Weeping whitethorn past done the night, but joyousness comes successful the morning,” Hall said.
Trevyn’s household says helium was a combatant connected the shot tract and successful life. Now, successful their sorrow, they volition combat arsenic well.
