Memorial for Susan Powell and sons planned in Utah

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Updated: 2/22/2012 10:08 am | Published: 2/22/2012 10:06 am

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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) - Plans are under way for a Utah memorial honoring missing West Valley City mom Susan Cox Powell and her two sons.

The nonprofit Pleasant Green Cemetery in Magna is donating a 15-by-15-foot plot of land for the memorial. At least one artist has offered to design a bronze sculpture that would sit at the entrance of the cemetery overlooking the Salt Lake valley.

Powell's friend Kiirsi Hellewell is raising funds for the materials in the project. She says the idea is preliminary and she doesn't know how much money will be needed.

West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder announced the project on Tuesday, less than three weeks after Powell's children Charlie and Braden died in a Washington house explosion police say was orchestrated by her husband Josh.

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krazyken - 2/22/2012 12:27 PM

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I could not agree more marty. It won't be long now before they try and make the three of them Catholic Saints.

marty - 2/22/2012 12:03 PM

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I think this is embarrassing and can't believe the "city leaders" approved it. They are not our family, they are victims of a horrible crime but this "memorial" does nothing for other victims, living and dead. I think it's a waste of time and resources and certainly morbid. I hope it will be reconsidered. We have become a society that is focused on public figures as if they are part of our own families and somehow need our interest, concern and sympathy. Turn your attention to the living - there are great needs right around you.

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