Mourners to remember victims of deadly U.S. mudslide

[World News]

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By Jonathan Kaminsky DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Mourners were set to gather on Saturday to remember two women killed by Washington state's massive mudslide, the first in a series of memorial events as the search for other bodies continued. Summer Raffo, a 36-year-old a school custodian, was driving down Highway 530 when the torrent of mud swept her car off the road northeast of Seattle on March 22. Retired librarian Linda McPherson, 69, was found dead in the wreckage of her home - one of about three dozen properties engulfed on the outskirts of the town of Oso in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains.

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