Calyia Stringer News Today

Mourners are wrapping caskets in imagery, similar to the way companies wrap logos around cars, trucks, and buses. Across the country, casket-wrap companies create custom designs, too often for parents grieving their dead children.

Calyia Stringer had a smile on her face the day she posed for a photo with a yellow flower in her hand. The toddler beamed with pride as she showed off the bloom before handing it to her godmother, Jatoria Foster. “She was so happy,” Foster said. “That was one of the best memories I […]

Funeral arrangements have been announced for Calyia Stringer, the 3-year-old girl struck by a stray bullet in the Roosevelt Homes in East St. Louis last Sunday.