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Roadside Memorials

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Andrea Bower Roadside Memorial (Photos, Video)

At Las Brisas Drive, between South Kings Avenue and Watson Road on Bloomingdale Avenue, a roadside memorial in the Greater Brandon community stands in memory of Andrea Bower, 13.

  Stuffed animals, photographs and mementoes lay at the base of a roadside memorial that bears a sign that says: "RIP Andrea Bower." On the sign, family, friends and community members are stopping to put words to paper in memory of the 13-year-old, an eighth-grader at Giunta Middle School, who died from injuries suffered in a traffic crash on Bloomingdale Avenue, near Las Brisas Drive. Andrea Bower was struck Nov. 16 by a Ford sports-utility vehicle as she attempted to cross the lanes of Bloomingdale Avenue to catch the bus to school there. Minutes earlier, she had missed the bus at her regular bus stop, across the street at Buckhorn Springs Drive. Five women were at the roadside memorial Nov. 17 to post the sign and add mementos. They …

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Memorial for Teen at Site of SUV Crash

A roadside memorial stands near the corner of South Kings Avenue and Coppertree Circle for the teen who died in a crash there June 15.

  A roadside memorial has been erected just south of the intersection of South Kings Avenue and Coppertree Circle, where Tyler Stich, 17, lost his life in a sport-utility vehicle crash. A report and photo gallery of the memorial, a wooden cross surrounded by flowers, balloons and chilhood mementos, are posted at Brandon Patch. Stich, 17, of Brandon, was the sole fatality when the SUV carrying six teens and a younger child overturned June 15. ______________ RELATED COVERAGE:

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