Funerals Set For Relatives Killed In Boat Sinking

Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Funerals have been set for five more members of an Indiana family who lost nine relatives when a tourist boat sank on a Missouri lake last week.

A church spokeswoman says services will be held Saturday at Eastern Star Church in Indianapolis for 70-year-old Horace Coleman; his 69-year-old wife, Belinda Coleman; 76-year-old Ervin Coleman; 45-year-old Angela Coleman; and her 2-year-old son, Maxwell Coleman.

Eleven members of the Coleman family were aboard the duck boat when it sank Thursday in Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri. The sinking occurred during a storm and killed 17 people .

Tia Coleman and her 13-year-old nephew were the family's only survivors. Funerals for her husband Glenn, 40, and three children -- Arya, 1; Evan, 7; and Reece, 9 -- are scheduled for Friday at Grace Apostolic Church.

Online fundraisers are raising money for funeral expenses and the family's surviving relatives.

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