Dondi Persyn tells PEOPLE she and other volunteers are “treating everything” they’ve found after the floods “like it’s the most important thing”
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- Dondi Persyn, a grandmother who lives about four miles from the Guadalupe River, launched a Facebook group to help people find precious items they lost when the river flooded
- People have uploaded photos to the group of sentimental or valuable items that they wish to return or retrieve
- The floods, which struck in the early hours of Friday, July 4, have killed at least 120 people in central Texas
A turquoise children’s Croc. A monogrammed gray towel. A decades-old family photo.
These are just some of the many items that have been found along the Guadalupe River in recent days that Dondi Persyn hopes to return to their owners — or to surviving relatives of those who died in the devastating floods that have killed at least 120 people in central Texas.
Persyn, 54, a mother of three adult children and four grandchildren who range in age from 3 to 13, lives in Boerne, about four miles from the Guadalupe…