FRIENDSWOOD, Texas—It happened in the 3500 block of West Bay Area Boulevard in Friendswood on the night before Thanksgiving. Keith Vargas was riding the motorcycle that once belonged to his father, when a truck pulling a trailer drove into his path. Vargas, 30, was killed instantly.
"There’s a void that will never be filled," said Stacie Burcl, Vargas’ sister. "There’s a holiday that will never be the same, and there’s a 4-year-old little girl that will never have her father again."
That little girl helped her family erect a memorial cross honoring Vargas on the roadside. That was on Easter. The following day, Burcl said she received a phone call from the nearby HOA’s management company.
"I was instructed that I had 24 hours to remove the cross that was called a distraction," said Burcl.
Burcl opted not to remove the cross, but just a few days ago, someone else did.
"Some people ask why do we have this cross here," said Diane Vargas, the victim’s mother. "It’s to honor where my child died."
The HOA said if the city doesn’t object to the cross, it doesn’t either. Some residents in the area, however, do.
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