Mission to hold candlelight vigil for missing and murdered Indigenous women – Mission City Record
Sept. 25, 2024
Annual vigil set for Fraser River Heritage Park on October 4 from 4 to 6. p.m.
For Mission’s Vera Peters, grieving with others can be helpful.
When Peters was only 12, her mother Rose Paul was murdered by her boyfriend in a case of domestic violence. She still feels the impact almost a decade later.
“[My mother] didn’t even get to watch me go through the transition to adulthood or college – and now I have two babies. I have a two year old and an eight month old. They’re both girls and she didn’t get to meet either of them. So it’s been really hard being a mom while I don’t have one anymore,” Peters said.
“My daughter – my older one – she always talks about her grandma Rose, saying she’s on the moon. And it’s really hard seeing it because I grew up with grandparents all around us, [and] she doesn’t even have one grandma in her life.”
