District officials confirmed that one recent high school graduate from the Kinkaid School was killed in the catastrophic flooding in Central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend.
Chloe Childress, who was a counselor at Camp Mystic and an incoming freshman at the University of Texas at Austin was remembered as someone who had a “remarkable way
of making people feel seen” and “steady compassion that settled a room,” according to Jonathan Eades, the head of the Kinkaid School.
Childress “lost her life upholding this selfless and fierce commitment to others,” according to Eades.
Eades shared the following statement with the Kinkaid School community on Sunday…