DEVINE, Texas — Alyssa Renee Ramirez was 18 and was homecoming queen, student council president, a cheerleader and a star athlete at Devine High School in Texas.
On her way home from senior prom, her car was swept away by floodwaters and she died.
There were no barricades on the road and the teen’s car stalled out in the high water a few miles from her home, Roberta Ramirez, Alyssa’s aunt, told the WOAI.
The young woman called her father and 911. A search went on through the night but officials couldn’t immediately locate the teen.
“They weren’t able to find her until this morning,” Roberta Ramirez told WOAI. “They [her parents] rest assured that she was a very strong believer and she has her place in Heaven and they’ll meet her again soon.”
The following is an obituary from the Hurley Funeral Home in Devine, Texas: “Alyssa was the homecoming queen of Devine High School, as well as a star athlete in tennis and volleyball. She was student council President, cheerleader and co-editor of the high school yearbook. She was very friendly to all who crossed her path, loved her family, her friends and the town of Devine. She had aspirations of being an Optometrist. She will be sorely missed by all. The following excerpt is what she posted 9 days before she died:
‘Faith grows through hardship. Faith does not grow in a garden of property, but in a desert of tribulation. Even though it is never pleasant to experience hardship, it teaches us to persevere and to cling to God. He will never desert us.'”
