T.J. Aulds / The Daily N
Galveston County Daily News website
DICKINSON, Texas — Hundreds of teenagers packed under a carport and stood in the street outside a classmate’s Dickinson home Monday for a candlelight vigil to mourn the loss of the 17-year-old and her sister.
Maria Guadalupe Castillo and her sibling Mayra Jaramillo Castillo, 22, died in a fiery crash in Webster early Sunday morning when the truck they were riding in slid off the interstate before slamming into a groves of trees and bursting into flames.
"I don’t know; I still think they are going to walk in (to the house)," Claudia Castillo, 24, Maria and Mayra’s older sister, said.
Claudia called her sisters "fun loving" and loved by all that knew them. They were the middle sisters in a close-knit family of five girls, their parents and dozens of cousins.
The family lives together in a collection of trailers just outside the Dickinson city limits.
Maria was a junior at Dickinson High School where she was a former class president, a member of the National Honor Society, a member of the soccer team and a student mentor in the school’s PALS program, Claudia said. The 17-year-old also worked at a local hotel as a front desk clerk, her older sister said.
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