A tearful Nathan Carman arrived at his mother’s memorial service bearing a bouquet of pink lilies, as well as a few choice words for the family members boycotting it. Six weeks earlier, Linda Carman had been lost at sea when a fishing trip went tragically wrong. Nathan, her only son, survived, but there were far more questions than answers about what had really happened, and Linda’s body had still not been found.
“I wish very much that our whole family could come together to pray for my mom,” Nathan, 22, told the barrage of reporters and news crews who had come to cover the service. “I wish desperately that my mom was rescued, and I hope she will be found.”