It's so sad to hear of this Slim. Please send my sympathies to the family and friends. Stories like these makes me grateful to have a loving family and friends around, and also puts us back to reality and our own mortality.

Regards,
choner

May the hands of the Almighty cradle her forever.

Sorry to hear that. She is in our prayers.

Having 3 children under 8 I can only imagine how they feel.

Slim,

I will say a prayer for the little one...God Needed An Angel and took this one!

My heart goes out to the family...

Regards,


B

Slim I'm so sorry to hear this. I am a teacher and one of the classes I teach is swimming. I have also taught Private lessions and in groups away from school. How could the Instructor NOT know what was going On!!! I know that this doesn't help I guess I'm thinking out loud. I have 4 small kids Im so sorry my prayers are with You. God Bless Them

My deepest condolences. The thought of a parent
losing a child is unimaginable.

...James A. (octo)

Slim,

My thoughts and prayers will be with Sara's family and your family. Any death is unfortunate, but the death of a child is a tragedy. I will pray for Sara's brother as well as the loss of a sibling can be extremely tramatic.

Matt

I will pray for the family as well for their loss.
I have children who just finished their rounds of swim lessons for the summer.
It is hard to see how this could happen with more than appropriate supervision, but the lord has ways to get around the best of efforts when the call comes.

Words are inadequate for such sad news.

This is so sad. Sara will be in my prayers tonight. Our Lord has a plan for each of us. This young child touched so many hearts in so many ways during her time and altered lives by her being.

g

Very sorry to here of such a tragic loss Slim.

A story in this morning's SF Chronicle says that a large bruise was found on her head ... they are sure, however, that it is not the result of foul play or even horse-play ... at this point, there is conjecture that she may have been 'doing laps' and in reaching the end of the pool where she was going to 'flip' and go back, she may have conked her head on the wall of the pool and knocked herself unconscious ...

This is a terrible tragedy. Losses like this seem unexplainable when you say your prayers.
My heart, my tears, and my prayers go out to the parents.

Yeah ... it was just a very tragic accident. She also had asthma her entire short life ... which may have contributed to it.

Witnesses say that she swam from one end of the pool to the other, and was doing an underwater flip, and slammed her head into the side of the pool ... and immediately sank to the bottom of the pool.

When the lifeguards finally got to her, they were not able to revive her.

The funeral is tomorrow (Saturday) ... and it's going to be a very difficult thing to have to attend.