Over 100 mourners crowded into the funeral for drowned South Carolina couple Wayne and Diane Guay, and as the two coffins were carried out of the Trinity Reformed Church on Sunday, December 17, the couple's two daughters, Jessica and Meghan, stood stoically at the church's threshold.
After the ceremony at the church located on 60th Place in Ridgewood, they had a simple message for the media, delivered by Daniel Rodriguez, Jessica's husband.
“I just want to thank everyone for their support in our time of need,” Rodriguez said, extending the family's gratitude to those who searched for the couple for five days and to the New York Police Department who joined the search effort on Monday, December 11.
“The family is going to try to start the healing process right now. We're going to try to relax and finally get a chance to actually sit down and talk to each other in peace for a few minutes, which we haven't had,” Rodriguez said.
The Guays, who had recently moved to South Carolina from Ridgewood, had been last seen on Wednesday, December 6, just before they packed up luggage and Christmas presents from their Myrtle Beach home to head to their daughters' homes in Whitestone and Ridgewood. The following night, when the couple had not arrived, their daughters became worried and called the police, who launched a massive search.
Authorities believe that the couple's white Mazda crashed into a creek off Interstate 95, and the passengers drowned in
On Monday, December 11, a chopper hired by the couple's family to search the area also saw the vehicle, and by evening, the bodies of Wayne, 57, who was a retired city sanitation worker and Diane, 55, a former teacher's aide, were identified.
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