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For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.
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Janie Hunt, 9, Eloise Peck, 8, Lila Bonner, 9, Hanna Lawrence, 8, Rebecca Lawrence, 8, and Hadley Hanna, 8, have all been confirmed dead.
“It was like a stomach punch,” Alicia, who lives with her mom and daughters in Houston, Texas, tells PEOPLE exclusively over Zoom. “I mean, it’s heartbreaking already, but then it hits even harder. All these thoughts rush in at once — like, we know her. My kids play with her…”
For nearly a century, Camp Mystic has been the Hill Country respite for Dallas’ daughters.
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.