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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky man who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other guys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing guys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to showcase up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electrical play is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky dude who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other fellows on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing studs.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his figure and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto bod shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky fellow who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other boys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing guys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the puny, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he eventually had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky stud who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other studs on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing studs.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he eventually had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the violet wand is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky dude who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other boys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing guys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electrical play is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky dude who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other boys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing fellows.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post affixed to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ assets lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his figure and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to showcase up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto assets shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky boy who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other guys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing guys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family tour.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ figure lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his figure and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky fellow who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other boys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing studs.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the puny, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ figure lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-therapy is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-therapy is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky fellow who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other studs on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing dudes.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ assets lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-therapy is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto bod shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky fellow who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other boys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing guys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ figure lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his bod and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electrical play is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the violet wand is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto bod shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky fellow who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other guys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing fellows.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his bod and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to showcase up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-therapy is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky stud who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other dudes on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing boys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his bod and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he eventually had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the violet wand is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky fellow who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other fellows on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing guys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the puny, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto bod shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky man who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other boys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing boys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family tour.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post affixed to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ figure lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his bod and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electrical play is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto assets shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky dude who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other dudes on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing dudes.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ figure lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his bod and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky man who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other boys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing boys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family tour.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electrical play is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky stud who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other fellows on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing boys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family tour.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post affixed to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ assets lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his bod and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-therapy is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky boy who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other boys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing fellows.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family tour.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post affixed to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his figure and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to display up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto assets shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky stud who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other guys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing studs.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the puny, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ assets lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his bod and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electrical play is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto bod shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky stud who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other fellows on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing guys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ figure lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-therapy is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto assets shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky fellow who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other dudes on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing studs.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the puny, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his figure and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he eventually had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the violet wand is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto assets shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky boy who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other studs on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing fellows.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the puny, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ assets lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his figure and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he eventually had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the violet wand is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto assets shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky stud who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other guys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing guys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the puny, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ figure lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his bod and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-therapy is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-stimulation is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky dude who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other studs on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing boys.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it shows up Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the puny, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ assets lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his bod and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he eventually had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-therapy is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electro-therapy is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto figure shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky stud who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other fellows on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing dudes.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post linked to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ figure lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he eventually had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the violet wand is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electric current is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthful teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto bod shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky stud who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, however that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The bods of two other guys on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing dudes.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family excursion.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post fastened to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ assets lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the puny chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and exchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomy and the blessings of his boss not to showcase up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the electrical play is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the figures of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

• By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
• Sep 1, two thousand seventeen Updated Sep 1, 2017

This undated photo shows Andrew Pasek, a 25-year-old Houston man killed in Harvey on a mission to check on his sister’s cat when he stepped on a live electrical wire Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. He warned away a friend who moved closer to help him. “He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” according to his mother, JoDell Pasek. His parents want people to understand the dangers of walking in floodwaters when the tens unit is still on. (Perlita Duque via AP)

• Perlita Duque

Family members react as a van is pulled out of the Greens Bayou with the bods of several family members on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. The van was carried into the bayou during Tropical Storm Harvey as the water went over the bridge. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

• Elizabeth Conley

This April 17, two thousand seventeen photo provided by Devin Zaring shows Ronald Zaring celebrates his bday at Friendswood Health Care Center in Friendswood, Texas. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 82-year-old Ronald Zaring died on a rescue bus on the way to a hospital. His son, Devin Zaring, said that after the storm hit, he knew there was no way he could get to the nursing home in Friendswood where his father, a Navy vet and retired medical supplies salesman, was living after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. (Devin Zaring via AP)

• Devin Zaring

Mourners gather for Harvey victim Benito Juarez Cavazos at Del Pueblo Funeral Home in Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Cavazos, 42, was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was being listed by police as a drowning or accident. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

• Brian Melley

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a youthfull teenage and was in the process twenty eight years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.

Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and social security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he evidently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto bod shop worker.

“When he received the social security card, he was so excited,” Maria Cavazos said because he felt it would prevent him from being deported. “That was his sense of protection.”

His close-knit family in the U.S. and friends mourned his loss and remembered him as a happy-go-lucky fellow who was always smiling, never missed a party where beer was served and would give a friend his last dollar.

The service for Cavazos is one of the very first for Harvey’s thirty nine known victims, tho’ that number is expected to rise with at least nineteen others believed missing and the search for them becoming more desperate.

It’s been four days since volunteer rescuers Ben Vizueth and Gustavo Rodriguez went missing in Harvey’s murky floodwaters when their boat hit submerged power lines and everyone was pitched overboard.

The figures of two other studs on the boat at the time — Vizueth’s brother, 45-year-old Yahir Rubio-Vizuet, and 33-year-old Jorge Perez — were found dead floating in the water soon after. Two journalists for the British newspaper The Daily Mail were aboard and survived.

Vizueth’s wifey, Perla Jaquez, trudged through a wooded area packed with downed trees and debris Thursday with other volunteers looking for the missing dudes.

“There’s still a lot of faith and a lot of hope that we can recover them,” she said in a Facebook Live movie.

The funeral of 82-year-old Ola Mae Winfrey-Crooks was scheduled Saturday. She drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto Sea near her home north of Houston. Authorities say it emerges Crooks was attempting to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.

A memorial also was being held Saturday for 58-year-old Ruben Jordan, a former football and track coach at Clear Creek High School who disappeared while driving during the storm.

Al and JoDell Pasek want to scatter the ashes of their son, 25-year-old Andrew Pasek, at Climb on Rushmore, where they had long planned to take a family journey.

Andrew was on a mission to check on his beloved big sister’s cat when he stepped on the wire, then fell into a lamp post affixed to the live wire. Pasek’s friend moved closer to help, but Pasek warned him away.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch me. I’m dying,'” said JoDell Pasek.

When news of Cavazos’s death spread through the petite, tightknit and mostly Mexican neighborhood of Port Houston, friends were devastated, said childhood friend Rene Velez.

In a funeral home Friday night, two singers and a guitarist sang hymns in Spanish as Cavazos’ bod lay in a dark blue coffin. He was dressed in a crimson, white and blue plaid T-shirt and blue jeans.

His cousin, Olga Cavazos, commented while viewing his assets and that his ever-present smile was discernable.

Mourners sang along in the petite chapel while dozens of others gathered in a nearby kitchen eating food and interchanging stories.

Maria Cavazos said her cousin was dedicated to his job and insisted on going to work Tuesday despite warnings from his roomie and the blessings of his boss not to demonstrate up that day. His car got stuck in a ditch and his family thinks he attempted to walk home and was swept away by waters while crossing Interstate-10 on foot.

Cavazos was found dead in a parking lot after floodwaters receded Tuesday near a Houston freeway. His death was listed by police as a drowning or accident.

The car was found the next day. It was locked and dry inwards.

Cavazos, one of eight children, had not been home to visit his parents in the city of Montemorelos in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León since he arrived in the U.S. because of fears he wouldn’t be able to get back in the country.

“It’s very unfortunate that right when he ultimately had hopes of being able to maybe go to Mexico soon to go see his family it all went downhill,” Maria Cavazos said. “Sadly, he’s going back to Mexico, but in an unfortunate way.”

Associated Press writers Amanda Lee Myers in Los Angeles, Anthony Izaguirre in Montgomery, Alabama, Frank Eltman in Garden City, Fresh York, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in Fresh York contributed to this report.

Copyright two thousand seventeen The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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