The children, 2-year-old Millie, 6-year-old Jackson and 9-year-old twin girls Ellie and Ivy, will be memorialized at The Crossing in Chesterfield on Friday.
The family of a celebrated Missouri educator who killed herself and her four children Monday say she was driven to “darkness” due to “spurious litigation and unfounded allegations” by her former boyfriend and ex-husband.
Bernadine Birdie Pruessner set her own house on fire in Ferguson, Missouri, police say, killing twins Ellie and Ivy Pruessner, nine, Jackson Spader, five, and Millie Spader, two.