Last Friday morning there was a horrific car accident on Highway I-65.  A tractor-trailer hit a family van in South Central Kentucky. The family, in the minivan, was headed to Iowa for a wedding when a tractor-trailer collided with them.  Eleven people, in total, died that day due to the crash.  
    Yesterday, the funeral for 9 of the 11 people killed was held in Marrowbone. More than 3000 people, mostly Mennonite and Amish, came out to pay their respects for the victims of the accident. A huge warehouse was converted into a church for the ceremony.
    People came from all over the country to pay their respects to people that they have never met. The women wore long black dresses with white bonnets, the men black suits without ties.
    Two people survived the crash.  They were both Guatemalan babies that the Esh family, the one traveling in the mini van, adopted.  
    The family’s pastor, Leroy Kauffman, said that their deaths were God’s will.  This may be hard to understand for many people, but another minister also sided with him saying that, “"We don't understand it.  We have never really experienced it, yet the word of God tells us this is so."