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Twin daughters of BigLaw couple amongst Texas flood victims; ‘we’re devastated,’ household says
July 8, 2025, 2:06 pm CDT
A primary responder searches an space alongside the Guadalupe River that was hit by flash flooding July 4 in Kerrville, Texas. (Picture by Eric Homosexual/The Related Press)
Two of the kids who died within the floods that swept by Central Texas over the Independence Day weekend had been the dual daughters of two BigLaw companions in Dallas.
BigLaw companions John and Lacy Lawrence are the mother and father of 8-year-old twins Hanna and Rebecca, who had been at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, on the time of the flooding, Regulation.com experiences. The ladies had simply completed second grade earlier than their deaths.
One other daughter, 14-year-old Harper, was additionally at Camp Mystic. She survived.
The dying toll from the flood was 109 as of noon Tuesday, the New York Occasions reported. The quantity has been growing each few hours, the newspaper mentioned.
John Lawrence is the securities and litigation co-chair at Baker Botts. Lacy Lawrence is a associate at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
They offered a press release to Regulation.com.
“Hanna and Rebecca introduced a lot pleasure to us, to their large sister Harper and to so many others,” they wrote. “We’ll discover methods to maintain that pleasure and to proceed to unfold it for them. However we’re devastated that the bond we shared with them and that they shared with one another is now frozen in time. Thanks for the love and help.”
John Lawrence’s father is David Lawrence Jr., a former writer for the Miami Herald, who gave a press release to the newspaper.
“It has been an unimaginable time for all of us. Hanna and Rebecca gave their mother and father John and Lacy and sister Harper and all in our household a lot pleasure,” David Lawrence Jr. mentioned. “They and that pleasure can by no means be forgotten.”
David Lawrence Jr. left the Miami Herald to deal with childhood training. He helped move a Florida constitutional modification to supply free training to all 4-year-old kids within the state. He additionally based the Kids’s Motion of Florida and was the founding chair of the Kids’s Belief, a part of the Kids’s Motion.
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