For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.

First Lady Melania Trump expressed deep sympathy for the families of Camp Mystic victims during her visit. She received a bracelet in honor of the deceased.

A woman and a child embrace after girls from Camp Waldemar, near the North fork of the Guadalupe River, are reunited with their families after heavy rainfall in Central Texas, Saturday, July 5, 2025.

Seven of the families who lost children at Camp Mystic are from Dallas. Best friends Lila Bonner, 9, and Eloise Peck, 8 , recently completed the second grade at Bradfield Elementary School in ...

The Lost Stuffy Project's team searches for stuffed toys online and pays for them to be shipped via donated funds, according to Jaffe. For any toys that can't be found, the nonprofit partners with custom keepsakes company Budsies to create a replica for a family, with Budsies donating its services.

Dick Eastland, the Camp Mystic owner who pushed for flood alerts on the Guadalupe River, was killed in last week’s deadly surge.