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Area artist dies in Haiti quake
By Gregory Trotter, Valley News - Published: January 15, 2010
NEWBURY — A Newbury artist was killed in the earthquake that devastated Haiti on Tuesday.
Flo McGarrell, 36, died when the Peace of Mind Hotel in Jacmel — a beach town about 20 miles south of Port-Au-Prince — crumbled during the earthquake, according to his parents.
A visual artist, McGarrell was serving as director of FOSAJ, a non-profit art centre in Jacmel. He spent the summer in Newbury with his parents, James and Ann McGarrell, and also returned for the Christmas holidays, leaving for Haiti only about 10 days ago.
"It's unbearable," said Ann McGarrell, her voice raw with emotion, in a phone interview Thursday.
A friend of their son called the McGarrells on Thursday morning on a satellite phone.
"The first thing I asked, 'Is Flo still alive?" his mother said. "She said, 'No.'"
The friend said McGarrell was returning from the airport in Port-au-Prince, having dropped off his godfather for a departing flight, and had stopped briefly at the hotel when the earthquake struck.
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Area artist dies in Haiti quake
By Gregory Trotter, Valley News - Published: January 15, 2010
NEWBURY — A Newbury artist was killed in the earthquake that devastated Haiti on Tuesday.
Flo McGarrell, 36, died when the Peace of Mind Hotel in Jacmel — a beach town about 20 miles south of Port-Au-Prince — crumbled during the earthquake, according to his parents.
A visual artist, McGarrell was serving as director of FOSAJ, a non-profit art centre in Jacmel. He spent the summer in Newbury with his parents, James and Ann McGarrell, and also returned for the Christmas holidays, leaving for Haiti only about 10 days ago.
"It's unbearable," said Ann McGarrell, her voice raw with emotion, in a phone interview Thursday.
A friend of their son called the McGarrells on Thursday morning on a satellite phone.
"The first thing I asked, 'Is Flo still alive?" his mother said. "She said, 'No.'"
The friend said McGarrell was returning from the airport in Port-au-Prince, having dropped off his godfather for a departing flight, and had stopped briefly at the hotel when the earthquake struck.
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