— One minute the Holcombes were a tight-knit family praying in the tiny church on Fourth Street. And the gunman nearly wiped out the Holcombe family, leaving Joe Holcombe, 86, Bryan’s father, to mourn the loss of the generations he had raised. The Holcombes lived in homes near one another on family land in the woods around Sutherland Springs. Mr. Dunn said that whenever they were patching up a machine and were not sure the fix would last, Danny would joke that “it would hold until the Rapture.”Bryan was a local business owner who made custom canvas covers for trailers, Mr. Dunn said. But Mr. Dunn said he had not attended because “their entire family is pretty much gone.”“There wasn’t anyone left to console,” he said.

Source: New York Times November 06, 2017 15:30 UTC