Cedar City mourns crash victims

Our third and hardest day in Cedar City. After meeting many of the family members and friends of the crash victims it was very difficult to photograph them in mourning. I found myself doing more walking and thinking than photographing... My heart and prayers have been and will continue to go out to those affected by this tragic loss. Hundreds gathered at a memorial for the victims killed in last week's plane crash near Moab, Monday evening at Southern Utah University. A candle was lit next to a portrait of each individual who was killed in the accident. -- Monday, August 25, 2008. Photo by Geoffrey McAllister/Deseret News

Lisa Shumway, left, sadly tends to her three-month-old baby along side her parents Peggy and Lloyd Layton during a memorial service held for those killed in last week's plane crash near Moab, Monday evening at Southern Utah University. Lisa's husband, Keith, was one of the 10 killed in the accident. -- Monday, August 25, 2008. Photo by Geoffrey McAllister/Deseret News

Andrea White, wife of David White who died in Friday's plane crash in Moab, reads through cards received from her 8th grade class at Canyon View Middle School Monday afternoon. Andrea has been grateful for the love and support she's received from the community. -- Monday, August 25, 2008. Photo by Geoffrey McAllister/Deseret News
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CEDAR CITY — It was a typical birthday party for a 7-year-old: About 10 children and their parents gathered at a neighborhood park. The children played games and ate cake and ice cream, and the birthday boy opened his presents.
All the while, the boy's mother, Andrea White, did her best to keep up appearances that everything was OK, even though her husband and the boy's father, David White, was one of 10 Cedar City area residents killed in a plane crash on Friday, the day before the party... (Read more of the related article: Cedar City mourns crash victims)

Family, friends offer thoughts on 10 killed in crash

It was our second straight day in Cedar City trying to capture the lives and memories of those who died in a plane crash in Moab last Friday. It's a very uncomfortable situation to approach the home of their family members but when they understand we're there to help memorialize their loved ones they often open up to us. It was nice to even be thanked and told it felt "almost therapeutic" for them.

The photo below was captured in the Ellsworth's neighborhood at sunset.
Flowers decorate the front room of the Ellsworth's home in Cedar City as LynAnn Ellsworth, right, greets well wishers at her front door Sunday afternoon. LynAnn's husband, Dr. Lansing Ellsworth, and son, Dallin, were both killed in Friday's plane accident in Moab. -- Saturday, August 23, 2008. Photo by Geoffrey McAllister/Deseret News
Kamber Ellsworth, wife of Dallin Ellsworth who was killed in Friday's plane crash outside Moab, remembers her husband in their Cedar City home Sunday afternoon. Kamber is eight months pregnant with their son. -- Saturday, August 23, 2008. Photo by Geoffrey McAllister/Deseret News

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CEDAR CITY — Sometime in the next five weeks, Kamber Ellsworth expects to deliver a baby, name him and take him home, without her husband by her side.
Kamber's husband since May 2007, Dallin Ellsworth, was one of 10 Cedar City area residents killed in a plane crash outside of Moab on Friday. The plane carried a pilot and nine employees of Red Canyon Aesthetics and Medical Spa dermatology clinic.

"He's a really good husband, and a really good father," Kamber said about Dallin, to whom she still referred in the present tense on Sunday. "He loves to talk to him, and the baby moves all the time." (Read more of the related article: Family, friends offer thoughts on 10 killed in crash )

Deaths of 10 stun Cedar City

Reporter Laura Hancock and I are in Cedar City trying our best to memorialize those who perished in a plane crash in Moab Friday evening. All ten occupants of the plane are from the Cedar City area. Assignments like this are difficult - the families need time to grieve. We were able to speak with the Goddard family tonight.

Ann Goddard, left, her daughter Chelsea, center, and her son Yorke, right remember their family members David and Cecilee who were killed in a plane crash in Moab Friday night. -- Saturday, August 23, 2008. Photo by Geoffrey McAllister/Deseret News
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MOAB — It was a somber scene Saturday as investigators sorted through what little was left of a plane that crashed here, killing 10 Cedar City residents.
The plane's pilot, as well as nine employees of the Red Canyon Aesthetics and Medical Spa dermatology clinic, were killed Friday night shortly after the plane took off from Canyonlands Field Airport northwest of Moab.

"The plane was completely engulfed in flames," said Grand County Sheriff James Nyland. (Read more of related article: Deaths of 10 stun Cedar City)