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Young girls, camp employees and vacationers are among the at least 120 people who died when Texas' Guadalupe River flooded.
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Alicia Duff tells PEOPLE how and why she decided to tell her kids, ages 6 and 8, that one of their friends died during the flooding in Texas.
Virginia Wynne Naylor, 8, was at Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp with cabins along the river in a rural part of Kerr County, when the floods hit on July 4. Her family confirmed her death in a statement, referring to her as Wynne.
For nearly a century, Camp Mystic has been the Hill Country respite for Dallas’ daughters.
The death toll in the Kerrville area reached 94 people, among 109 deaths in the region including Kerr, Travis, Kendall, Burnet, Williamson and Tom Green counties. On Tuesday, there were five children and one counselor with Camp Mystic - a private Christian all-girls summer camp - unaccounted for,
Janie Hunt, 9, Eloise Peck, 8, Lila Bonner, 9, Hanna Lawrence, 8, Rebecca Lawrence, 8, and Hadley Hanna, 8, have all been confirmed dead.
The death toll from Friday morning’s horrific flooding rose to at least 80 across Texas on Sunday evening, with 68 of the deaths in Kerr County, where Camp Mystic is based.
Janie Hunt was attending Camp Mystic with six of her cousins, who made it out of Friday's flood alive. Two of those cousins are Georgia Congressman Buddy Carter's grandchildren.
Among those who died at Camp Mystic was Dick Eastland ... "I am just heartbroken." Jeff Rockow, a Dallas-based chef and caterer, had picked up his two girls from the camp a week and a half before the waters of the Guadalupe River began to rise.
A Dallas chef whose daughters once attended Camp Mystic in the Texas hill country has returned to help prepare meals in the aftermath of the flash flooding that has claimed more than 100 lives, including many campers.