Hundreds of people filled the Long Neck United Methodist Church on Thursday afternoon to mourn the loss of three young girls killed in a house fire earlier this month.
Photographs of Skylar and Veronica Marchuk, 4-year-old twins, and their cousin Amaya Gentner, 18 months, brought smiles and tears to the crowd as they watched a slideshow of the young girls as newborn babies, hanging out at the beach and in the pool, playing and napping with their family and sporting huge smiles with the family puppy.
The three girls died in an Aug. 7 fire at a Pot-Nets Bayside home, which has since been torn down. A fourth child, 2-year-old Kora Hitchens, was taken to a local hospital and survived. The fire remains under investigation.