5/18/19 The Compassionate Friends of Tyler Butterfly Release by Sarah A. Miller
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Knox Knight is one of many children remembered at The Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release at The Children's Park in Tyler. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Daniel Khirallah, stillborn, is one of many children remembered at The Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release at The Children's Park in Tyler. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Jennifer Musick is one of many children remembered at The Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release at The Children's Park in Tyler. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Butterfly signs paired with photos of children who have died line a grassy area at The Children's Park in Tyler for the annual Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release. The event recognizes children who have died and is attended by parents, siblings and other family members. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Infant Hudson Ayers of Rusk is one of the children represented at the Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release at The Children's Park in Tyler on Saturday May 18, 2019. The event recognizes children who have died and is attended by parents, siblings and other family members. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
(Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
(Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Heather Ogg reads a poem at the Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release at The Children's Park on Saturday May 18, 2019. Ogg's son Tanner Douglas who died at age 16. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
People attend the Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release at The Children's Park in Tyler on Saturday May 18, 2019. The event recognizes children who have died and is attended by parents, siblings and other family members. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
(Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Heather Ogg and her mother Vinita Spam take a photo at the Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release with the sign for Ogg's son Tanner Douglas who died at age 16. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
(Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Artie Khirallah, 5, holds a package containing a butterfly at The Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release at The Children's Park in Tyler on Saturday May 18, 2019. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Asa and Ruby Buchanan of Tyler take a photo with the butterfly sign recognizing their daughter at The Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release at The Children's Park in Tyler on Saturday May 18, 2019. Their daughter Evelyn Faith Buchanan died the day she was born. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Monica Khirallah of Dallas and her son David, 6, and nephew Artie Khirallah, 5, release butterflies in honor of Daniel Khirallah who was stillborn. The Tyler Compassionate Friends host a butterfly release each year for parents and siblings who have lost a child. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Monica Khirallah of Dallas and her son David, 6, release a butterfly in honor of her son Daniel Khirallah who was stillborn. The Tyler Compassionate Friends host a butterfly release each year for parents and siblings who have lost a child. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
(Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Tiffany Ayers of Rusk releases a butterfly for her son Hudson Ayers at the Tyler Compassionate Friends butterfly release at The Children's Park in Tyler on Saturday May 18, 2019. The event recognizes children who have died and is attended by parents, siblings and other family members. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)