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‘I believe she prayed them into heaven'
CARNEGIE — Relatives of three women who drowned together Sunday in a flash flood have found peace in the evidence of their loved ones' final moments.
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Authorities found Dorita Horse, her daughter Helen Horse, and niece Rose Saddleblanket huddled together in the back seat of their submerged van. The three were swept off a darkened state highway south of Carnegie shortly after midnight by a raging river of rainwater.
"Mom was in the middle,” said Alpha Marie Goombi, one of Dorita Horse's 11 children. "In that brief amount of time, when they knew they were going to die, I believe Mom tried to comfort them. I believe she prayed them into heaven.
"And I believe Jesus was right there with them.”
A memorial service will be tonight for the three women at Red Buffalo Hall on the Kiowa Tribal Complex in Carnegie. Services will begin at 7, and the public is invited.
Their funeral will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday at the same location.
Dorita Horse, 77, was the wife of Kiowa Chairman Billy Evans Horse.
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