{"id":376471,"date":"2026-07-17T04:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376471\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:51:11","slug":"east-texas-family-remembers-sibling-killed-in-highway-155-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376471\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas family remembers sibling killed in Highway 155 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

PALESTINE, Texas (KETK<\/a>)\u2013 The sister of Cynthia Donnell, who was killed in a fatal car crash earlier this month, is keeping her legacy alive by remembering her as someone who always made people smile.<\/p>\n

“We were like the three amigos, so to speak. She is the missing piece right now,” Cynthia’s older sister, Rose Warren, said.<\/p>\n

63-year-old Donnell was one of five people killed in a horrific head-on crash on Highway 155 near Flint on July 8.<\/p>\n

“My heart goes out to everyone that’s impacted,” Warren said.<\/p>\n

Warren remembers Cynthia as someone who always made sure the people around her had a smile on their faces.<\/p>\n

“We would just play music and dance and just enjoy each other,” Warren said.<\/p>\n

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Warren said Cynthia would send funny text messages and they were inseparable.<\/p>\n

She is leaning on her faith and family to get through this extremely emotional time while carrying on her memory of making people smile every day.<\/p>\n

Donnell’s family will be honoring her legacy and joy for life in Palestine this Saturday during her funeral.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KETK.com | FOX51.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALESTINE, Texas (KETK)\u2013 The sister of Cynthia Donnell, who was killed in a fatal car crash earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133121,133122,2608,13483,133123,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-376471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-cynthia-donnell","tag-fatal-car-crash","tag-ketk","tag-palestine","tag-rose-warren","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}