12-14-2010, 03:58 AM
last night, monday, candlelight vigil for DeBlase children.
CITRONELLE, Ala. — They came holding candles on a chilly Monday night to grieve, to pray and to honor siblings Chase and Natalie DeBlase, children almost none of them knew.
About 400 people, including many entire families, converged on the site off Beverly Jeffries Highway near Prine Road, where 4-year-old Natalie’s remains were found Saturday.
A 4-foot wooden cross bore a picture of a smiling Natalie, while a Santa teddy bear sat at the base in the floodlit clearing.
The children’s stepmother, Heather Leavell-Keaton, and their father, John DeBlase, remained in Mobile County Metro Jail. Leavell-Keaton was returned to Mobile from Louisville, Ky., about 1 a.m. today.
CITRONELLE, Ala. — They came holding candles on a chilly Monday night to grieve, to pray and to honor siblings Chase and Natalie DeBlase, children almost none of them knew.
About 400 people, including many entire families, converged on the site off Beverly Jeffries Highway near Prine Road, where 4-year-old Natalie’s remains were found Saturday.
A 4-foot wooden cross bore a picture of a smiling Natalie, while a Santa teddy bear sat at the base in the floodlit clearing.
The children’s stepmother, Heather Leavell-Keaton, and their father, John DeBlase, remained in Mobile County Metro Jail. Leavell-Keaton was returned to Mobile from Louisville, Ky., about 1 a.m. today.