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Funeral held for Iowa woman killed in fiery, wrong-way crash

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April 4th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Funeral services were held over the weekend for a woman who was killed in a fiery, wrong-way interstate crash that also killed two Des Moines police officers and another driver. The Daily Nonpareil reports that a crowd gathered Saturday to mourn 32-year-old Tosha Nicole Hyatt, of Des Moines, during her funeral and burial in Council Bluffs.

Hyatt was in a police car, being transported from Council Bluffs to Des Moines on an arrest warrant, when the crash occurred March 26th. Des Moines police officers Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales and Benjamin Beary of Knoxville, the driver of the other vehicle involved, were also killed.

The Reverend Joe Laughlin of Victory Church in Omaha, Nebraska which Hyatt attended as a child, officiated. Laughlin said Hyatt was loved by her friends and family.