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Title: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 02, 2023, 03:09:45 PM
Can someone please tell me definitively has Harper passed away or not? There are websites and news organization posting stories as recently as 4 hours ago, that say she is still alive and fighting and that the news of her death is erroneous. What is happening here?
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Harness Stats on August 02, 2023, 04:17:45 PM
In this case you have to believe the media.  If websites and news sources say she's alive she is. 

The person that reported her death on this forum went on to say in a later post that someone told him she passed, and he didn't really know so it was all 2nd hand with no source.

Hope she makes it no matter what.
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 02, 2023, 04:51:27 PM
Feel like my heart has been on a rollercoaster with this poor little one. Can only guess what the family is going thru. That poor Grandmother holding her when she was hit, Unimaginable
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Balmoral buzz on August 02, 2023, 06:24:01 PM
I talked to 3 people in the track kitchen today at hop and all said she passed but again second hand information. I pray she is still alive.
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: RANDOLPH POKER on August 03, 2023, 12:49:28 AM
https://lovingtributesonline.com/2023/08/01/harper-finn-obituary-altamont-il-5-year-old-dies-after-being-struck-by-harness-race-starting-gate-during-funfair-death/
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: okdfool on August 03, 2023, 08:15:42 AM
https://lovingtributesonline.com/2023/08/01/harper-finn-obituary-altamont-il-5-year-old-dies-after-being-struck-by-harness-race-starting-gate-during-funfair-death/

This is a BOT Obituary, it hears rumors of a person passing and majes it's own obit
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Generation XYZ on August 03, 2023, 08:27:14 AM
The reporting on this is as painful as the tragedy. News sources say she passed. and others say she's in intensive care.  Must be even worse for the family fielding condolence calls etc. if in fact she is still with us.
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Kirbys Ace on August 03, 2023, 12:37:38 PM
Shes still fighting!
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 03, 2023, 12:38:44 PM
God bless her - hang in there little one!
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Generation XYZ on August 03, 2023, 01:37:03 PM
Shes still fighting!

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Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: shotgunner on August 03, 2023, 06:21:04 PM
Saw on Facebook that the coroner confirmed she passed Wednesday night.
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 03, 2023, 07:16:26 PM
UGH  We were all praying she would pull through. Just saw a story about her death in the Washington Post online, so it is true. Wednesday night. Sit in Jesus's lap, little one.
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: HoppleBurns on August 03, 2023, 09:34:26 PM
http://www.thexradio.com/news/78-local-news/61512-five-year-old-injured-at-fair-sunday-dies-from-her-injuries
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: horses first on August 03, 2023, 10:01:05 PM
Brought up in conversation last night with a friend that she was brain dead and the family pulled the plug. Accidents happen but when children are involved it's the worse as they are stripped of a long life ahead. She will be someone's angel. So disheartening of a story.
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: NatHillIV on August 04, 2023, 07:31:21 AM
Terrible tragedy, that's certain.
It says something about the harness racing community that as of this morning, the gofundme set up for the Finn family, is up to $76,580.  Pretty good for a fund hoping for $10,000.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/m346t-the-finn-family
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Generation XYZ on August 04, 2023, 09:11:07 AM
Terrible tragedy that could have been avoided.
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 04, 2023, 02:05:00 PM
Maybe the world is not going to hell in a hand basket after all!
More then Eight Hundred  donations from all over the map.
Scanning the list of donors I am sure many of the names have no connection to IL. racing or the Finn families.
Lets hope it is enough to pay Ambalance, Med Flight, Drs, Hospitals, and of course a fitting funeral.
Years ago many times I took my young daughters with me to race at the fairs. If this had happened to me, I just don't know how I would have surrived.
Title: Re: Precious Harper Finn
Post by: Generation XYZ on August 04, 2023, 02:10:55 PM
Its a tragedy that won't soon be forgotten. Absolutely a horrible situation for the family and their loss.
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