People in Carman, Man., are scheduled to gather Wednesday for the funeral of five people killed in what Premier Wab Kinew has called a “dark time” for the province.
A funeral is being held for Amanda Clearwater, her children Bethany, Jayven and Isabella Manoakeesick, and her teenage niece Myah-Lee Gratton.
People attending the service, which is closed to the media, have been asked to wear purple.
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The bodies were found Feb. 11 at multiple crime scenes in and around Carman, a town of about 3,000 people southwest of Winnipeg.
Clearwater’s common-law partner, Ryan Howard Manoakeesick, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder.
Clearwater is being remembered in an obituary as someone whose passion in life was her children, and who saw the good in everyone.
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