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Heartbreaking Story Behind Dad Who Added Daughter's Necklace to Headstone After His 3 Kids Were Killed (Exclusive)


Katie DeRouen shared a poignant TikTok of her dad Ray Simmons gluing a red Kendra Scott stone onto an etching of his late 20-year-old daughter Lindy, who was killed by a drunk driver along with her sister Kamryn, 15, and brother Christopher, 16, in December 2021.

In December 2021, Dawn and Ray Simmons lost three of their children — Kamryn, 15, Christopher, 16, and Lindy, 20 — in a car crash caused by a drunk, wrong-way driver in Louisiana Since the fatal accident, Dawn and her daughter Katie DeRouen have shared videos about grief on TikTok Viewers were moved by Ray's dedication to maintaining his late kids' gravesite, including how he glued a stone onto their headstone to replicate his daughter's signature necklace Most of their TikToks show old videos of Kamryn, Christopher and Lindy, or more recent footage of Dawn and DeRouen working on Simmons3, their non-profit organization that educates people about the dangers of impaired driving. One recording showed him draping a quilt over Lindy, who captioned the video, “I [was] laying here without a blanket and I knew my dad was gonna come bring me one and cover me.”

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