KILLEN, Ala. (WAFF) - It’s been over a week since Krissy Devito lost her mother and one-year-old child in a car crash in Lauderdale County.

Devito held the event at Atlas Church in Killen. 63-year-old Emma Wade and five of her grandchildren were involved in a head-on collision. Balloons

Hundreds gather in Killen for balloon release honoring grandmother, child killed in crash

Wade died in the crash, while all five children were airlifted to Vanderbilt Hospital. One-year-old Greyson Devito died of his injuries at the hospital.

Devito said the community has been significant in helping her through this tragedy.

“Honestly it’s made me feel really good,” she said. “I thought -- I told a friend as we were headed up to Vanderbilt, I said ‘I’m getting rid of Facebook. I don’t want to see what everyone’s saying, I don’t want to see any of it.’ But then as it progressed, and saw all those positive comments, a lot of it really carries me through. It’s nice to know that people who don’t really know you or don’t benefit from you in any way, they still really care.”

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