{"id":424827,"date":"2026-09-03T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424827\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:02:09","slug":"four-years-after-robb-elementary-shooting-longtime-memorial-caretaker-seeks-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424827\/","title":{"rendered":"Four years after Robb Elementary shooting, longtime memorial caretaker seeks volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been four years since the mass shooting at Robb Elementary claimed the lives of 21 people, and for all those years a local woman has worked to keep the memories of the lives lost alive. But now she\u2019s tired and asking for help making the memorial at Robb Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>Sinc the tragedy happened Teresa Nera says she felt a connection to each soul lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important to me because they should be here,\u201d Nera said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first two years the 70-year-old traveled nearly 40 minutes from Hondo twice a month to tend to the memorial.  She laminated photos, put flowers in vases, and more. Then she moved to Uvalde in 2024 allowing her to upkeep the memorial daily, but she hasn\u2019t been able to clean up the memorial since July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very tired,\u201d Nera said. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten some energy back. But I also need to take care of some things I\u2019ve put aside for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nera resigned from taking care of the memorial at Robb Elementary on the 4th anniversary of the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s hoping to find six dedicated families to take up the task.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to volunteer Nera can be contacted at 830-900-0060<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been four years since the mass shooting at Robb Elementary claimed the lives of 21 people, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-424827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424827","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=424827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}