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Twin daughters of BigLaw couple amongst Texas flood victims; ‘we’re devastated,’ household says
By Debra Cassens Weiss
July 8, 2025, 2:06 pm CDT
A primary responder searches an space alongside the Guadalupe River that was hit by flash flooding July 4 in Kerrville, Texas. (Photograph by Eric Homosexual/The Related Press)
Two of the youngsters who died within the floods that swept by way of Central Texas over the Independence Day weekend have been the dual daughters of two BigLaw companions in Dallas.
BigLaw companions John and Lacy Lawrence are the mother and father of 8-year-old twins Hanna and Rebecca, who have been at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, on the time of the flooding, Regulation.com stories. The women had simply completed second grade earlier than their deaths.
One other daughter, 14-year-old Harper, was additionally at Camp Mystic. She survived.
The dying toll from the flood was 109 as of noon Tuesday, the New York Instances reported. The quantity has been growing each few hours, the newspaper stated.
John Lawrence is the securities and litigation co-chair at Baker Botts. Lacy Lawrence is a associate at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
They offered an announcement to Regulation.com.
“Hanna and Rebecca introduced a lot pleasure to us, to their huge sister Harper and to so many others,” they wrote. “We are going to discover methods to maintain that pleasure and to proceed to unfold it for them. However we’re devastated that the bond we shared with them and that they shared with one another is now frozen in time. Thanks for the love and assist.”
John Lawrence’s father is David Lawrence Jr., a former writer for the Miami Herald, who gave an announcement to the newspaper.
“It has been an unimaginable time for all of us. Hanna and Rebecca gave their mother and father John and Lacy and sister Harper and all in our household a lot pleasure,” David Lawrence Jr. stated. “They and that pleasure can by no means be forgotten.”
David Lawrence Jr. left the Miami Herald to deal with childhood training. He helped cross a Florida constitutional modification to offer free training to all 4-year-old kids within the state. He additionally based the Kids’s Motion of Florida and was the founding chair of the Kids’s Belief, a part of the Kids’s Motion.
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