NEAH BAY – Members of the Makah tribe call themselves “people of the water,” but Friday found them on a sea of tears for a 15-year-old boy and a 75-year-old woman.
Funeral services for revered elder Mary McQuillen, will take place at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the gym of Neah Bay High School.
That’s where several hundred people gathered Friday to bid farewell to popular teenager Ronnie L. Scroggins.
Mr. Scroggins died last Sunday when a car in which he and six other youths were riding plunged into the Elwha River.
The crash also killed Vanna Francis, 17, of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, who was buried Saturday.
In Neah Bay on Friday, mourners filled the bleachers and the basketball floor that was a focus of Scroggins’ life.
A basketball and his No. 24 Red Devils jersey were placed on his open white casket.
Later, the Rev. Andrew Winck’s homily used basketball as a metaphor for life.
