Family members, including the McFarland children’s “paternal grandmother from Sacramento, their maternal grandparents and several of their mother’s sisters” traveled to Salt Lake City to get the children of Stephanie and Tod McFarland, the Carlsbad couple who died in an automobile accident early Thursday July 3, 2008.
They’ve asked for Mommy and Daddy,” said Shirley Rehder, the children’s great-aunt. “The little one wanted his daddy to tuck him in last night.
Tod McFarland was the lead physical therapist at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla and Stephanie was a stay-at-home mom.
“They were the most beautiful people,” Rehder said. “I told Tod and Stephanie that if ever there was a family that needed to be modeled, it was theirs.”
Family members have not yet decided who the recently orphaned children will live with, but they have decided that they will keep them together. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families during this time of tragedy.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Per the family that Stephanie and Tod had in Houston, I want to thank you for your thoughts and prayers. We really appreciate it.
Two family members were witnesses to the accident, they were the one that pulled out the children from the wreck. They were there when Todd and Stephanie took their last breath. The children were never alone. My heart and prayers go out to the Mcfarland family and I will ask that God’s grace wiill be with the family in this time of need.
Tod and Stephanie were my closest friends in college. I can’t imagine the world without them. They shaped my life in so many ways.
matt
My thoughts and prayers are with Tod and Stephanie’s family at this time. Thank you for creating a fund for the children so that we all can help in some way. God Bless them.
Our entire family extends our deepest thoughts & prayers to the family during this difficult time. It just doesn’t seem real that they are gone but we know in God’s perfect plan HIS hand is in everything! All the best, The Reese Family