The Crossing Portrait Series: crossingCSchneidNS0003

Colleen Yetter Lackey, left, and her sister, LaDean Yetter Long, stand in a field near their parents' home in Weld County. They continue to feel the pain of losing many of their friends in the train-bus crash of Dec. 14, 1961. The sisters got up late that morning and missed the bus, but their cousin, Jerry Hembry, ran for the bus and made it. He survived.

Colleen Yetter Lackey, left, and her sister, LaDean Yetter Long, stand in a field near their parents' home in Weld County. They continue to feel the pain of losing many of their friends in the train-bus crash of Dec. 14, 1961. The sisters got up late that morning and missed the bus, but their cousin, Jerry Hembry, ran for the bus and made it. He survived.