The Crisfield community is coming together to support the families of the triple fatal fire

Handmade bows from Crisfield’s Main Street flower shop, now decorate the landscape of Crisfield.

They’re not just beautiful, they carry a heavy significance. The pink for 16-year-old daughter Angelina Pinkston. The purple is for Angelina’s mom 44-year-old Jennifer Cooper. And the blue for their family friend, five-month-old Kaiden Pace.

All three died in a house fire. And the bows are tied to a community wide effort to grieve and help the families who have lost so much.

Lynne Brumely, a Crisfield high faculty member is now heading up the fund raising efforts across the town. She rallied businesses and students to help collect money for funeral costs. Since Angelina was a junior at Crisfield High, students are selling items they think she would have liked, such as pink t-shirts and bracelets. 

The pink t-shirts were designed by Angelina’s best friend and the pink bracelets were designed by two other students because Angelina liked the color pink and her name was Pinkston.

Main Street flower shop is donating 50% from the sale of the bows. Another business known as The Pizza Shoppe is participating by donating 10% of all their purchases on Friday.

The Pizza Shoppe said they wanted to help as the families are going through a very difficult time. They told 47 ABC that they are also trying to organize items that the families may need by creating a drop off center at The Pizza Shoppe for anybody who wanted to donate.

Another business in Crisfield, Lmen’s Seafood will be donating 25% of their proceeds from all weekend of November 4-6.

We also spoke to Crisfield Mayor Kim Lawson who admits he’s proud of his community who has shown strong ties, despite the strain of this recent tragedy.

The GoFundMe page for Angelina can be found here.