A businessman with a heart of gold has donated customized caskets to the families of the Texas school shooting victims.
Following the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a business specializing in creating personalized coffins stepped forward and offered to design caskets for the victims of the shooting.
While their personalized caskets typically come at $3,400 a piece, the company offered them free of charge to the families of 19 children and 2 teachers killed in the shooting.
As Trey Ganem, the CEO of Soul Shine Industries, said, he wanted to do everything in his power just to make the families’ suffering a bit more bearable and help them heal.
According to Ganem, the families of 18 slain children and the family of one killed teacher have since accepted his proposal with open arms.
“We’re here to try to make a hard time a little easier,” Trey’s son, Billy, said in an interview with BuzzFeed.
“There’s nothing we can really ever do to make it easier, but that’s our goal: to help the families start their grieving and their healing and just try to make something special for them.”
Since the Texas-based company doesn’t keep a lot of small caskets in stock, they had to order them from a Georgia manufacturer who worked tirelessly to complete the large order in just 20 hours.
From there, volunteers quickly transported the coffins to Ganem’s workshop in Edna where the crew worked without getting any sleep to personalize the caskets according to the children’s favorite motifs.
According to Ganem, themes featured on the caskets ranged from dinosaurs and superheroes to musical notes, slimes, and basketballs.
By Saturday, the team was ready to complete their journey to Uvalde and deliver the caskets to the grieving families.
“It has been an extremely emotional roller coaster for me, I don’t even know if you can hear my voice,” Ganem told BuzzFeed.
“I haven’t hollered at all, but I’m losing my voice, for whatever reason.”
The news comes as the funerals of the shooting victims have begun.
The first laid to rest on Tuesday afternoon was Amerie Garza, a 10-year-old honor roll student and a little girl with a heart of gold.
Our hearts go out to the families of all the victims of the shooting.
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