Victims of the June 14 flood remembered
WHEELING — Their names trickled in over the course of 12 days. Sandra Parsons; Michael Bokanovich; Connie and Michael Veronis; Lisa McMasters; Jesse Pearson; Kyleigh and Parker Shotton; Travis Creighton. When flash flooding struck the Valley Grove and Triadelphia communities the evening of June 14, it carried with it a force that changed everything. Roads crumbled and vanished; dozens of homes were destroyed; cars swept away. In the aftermath, our greater Ohio Valley community was left to count not only what was lost — homes, belongings — but, most importantly, who. ...