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Funeral held today for 7 young fire victims

ELLIOTTSBURG, Pa. — Seven siblings killed in a fire at a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse last week are being laid to rest.

The funeral today for the Clouse children was held at a packed church facility in Elliottsburg, about 30 miles northwest of Harrisburg. The victims ranged from 9 months to 11 years old.

A slideshow was played to mourners at the Perry Mennonite Reception Center. Three hearses drove the seven white caskets for burial at a cemetery in Loysville.

The children’s father, Ted Clouse, was on a milk-delivery run when the fire erupted. Their mother, Janelle Clouse, was milking cows in a barn.

One sibling, a 3-year-old girl, was unharmed.

Neither parent spoke at the funeral.

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