SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The bench, one of two placed in the Vermillion area, wasn’t originally supposed to be at Family Park in west Sioux Falls.
“Shortly after Caitlyn passed away, her friends at USD did a fundraiser to purchase two benches,” Barb Olson of Sioux Falls said Friday. “One bench was placed at Jolley Elementary where Caitlyn worked, and the other was placed down by the river along some walking trails where Caitlyn used to take walks.”
A car crash in March 2018 took the life of 19-year-old Caitlyn Carman, Olson’s youngest daughter. Carman, whose friends called her “Cat,” was studying at the University of South Dakota. Floodwaters rose in 2024 in the area where one of the benches had gone…