β€˜At last, he's home'
After 11 years of waiting, family says goodbye to son

 
By Ron Jackson
Published: October 3, 2007

HOBART β€” Patty Burroughs finally got to say goodbye to her deceased son, Steven, during a memorial service Tuesday in Hobart. The memorial ended an agonizing 11-year wait.

"This means a lot,” Patty Burroughs said as she patted tears from her cheeks. "This should have happened a long time ago.”

Steven Royce Burroughs, 18, disappeared from the family's small farmhouse outside Roosevelt on March 17, 1996, p...


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