Family mourns the loss of inseparable sisters

Even though Shilo was the younger of the two, she was the one her older sister leaned on, their mother said. She doesn't believe the tightly bonded sisters could have gone on without each other.

"They needed each other," she said.

Sitting in their living room Saturday afternoon with pictures of Christ on the wall and plaques with words such as "Faith" hanging next to them, the Edwardses said their own faith was "the only thing that's getting us through it."

"They're safe now in the Lord's hands," Dale Edwards said.

When Shilo and Micah's grandmother was sick with cancer and lived with them, they always took care of her, her parents said. Now it's time for the grandmother to take care of them, Lee Anne Edwards said. The girls, who couldn't be separated, would also still be there to take care of each other, she said.

When an accident like this happens, "it was meant to be," Lee Anne Edwards said.

A young couple in the vehicle that collided with the Edwards sisters suffered critical injuries and was taken to hospitals in Provo and Mount Pleasant. The Edwardses have talked to the woman who was in the car.

"She was so sweet and so kind," Dale Edwards said. "They're suffering terribly. It wasn't their fault. We feel so bad for them and for their pain."

The funeral for the Edwards sisters will be Wednesday at the West Bountiful Stake Center, 1930 N. 600 West. A viewing will be held Tuesday.

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