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Sombre service for family killed in crash Highway 63 collision. Deadly accident has led to calls for province to twin remaining two-lane section of highway
Mourners leave the memorial service for Shannon Wheaton, his wife, Trena, and their son, Benjamin, on Sunday at the Family Christian Centre in Fort McMurray. They were among seven people killed when two pickup trucks collided head-on near Wandering River on Friday. Jacqueline McFarlane/THE CANADIAN PRESS
A pastor and two members of his family killed in a horrific highway crash were remembered Sunday in sombre church services in Alberta and Newfoundland, where mourners were struggling to come to grips with the tragedy. Shannon Wheaton, his wife, Trena, and their youngest son, Benjamin, were among seven people who died Friday in a head-on collision on Highway 63. The couple’s oldest son, three-year-old Timothy, survived with minor injuries. Wheaton was from Newfoundland. The service was anything but ordinary at Wheaton’s church, the Family Christian Centre in Fort McMurray. Some congregation members were
in tears as they left the church. One told reporters people were trying their best to explain the tragedy to the children, but it was difficult for the youngest ones to comprehend. In Fort McMurray, the church is providing grief counselling to its members. “His passion for God, the church and community was exceptional,” the church’s lead pastor, Rev. Edwin Rideout, said in a statement about Wheaton that was posted on the church’s website. The wreck happened on a two-lane stretch of Highway 63 near Wandering River, between Edmonton and Fort McMurray. Police said a pickup truck going north pulled out to pass another vehicle, colliding with another pickup travelling south. Six people were in one of the pickups, including two identified by family and friends as Mark and Courtney Penney, while three were in the truck that had tried to pass. Courtney Penney is believed to have also died, while her husband is in hospital. the canadian press