Trey Ganem talks to the dead, and he can make their coffins.
Now the operator of SoulShine Industries, a business that would make custom made coffins in Edna, Texas, is donating his attempts to the victims of the college taking pictures in Uvalde.
Ganem, 50, told The Write-up Saturday he is covering the expenditures of the coffins, which retail for about $3,400 every single. He reported he satisfied with the family members of 19 of the victims — 18 small children and just one teacher — and he has designed coffins showcasing dinosaurs, butterflies, softball and scenes from TikTok films.
In all, 21 people were killed Tuesday when an 18-calendar year-old gunman marched into Robb Elementary School, barricaded himself in a classroom and commenced killing.
“I was known as by a several men and women who necessary caskets urgently, and the full point truly tore me up so I made a decision to assist,” stated Ganem, who is the star of A&E actuality show “Trey the Texas Medium.”
He spoke to The Write-up whilst he was loading eight of the coffins into a truck for the approximately 4-hour drive to Uvalde. By Tuesday, all of the coffins really should be in city, in time for the funerals.
He explained he fulfilled with people of the victims on Wednesday and Thursday, and started creating the coffins Friday. He has been operating around the clock to total the models that he paints on the caskets, which are manufactured at the Cherokee Casket Organization in Ga.
“We started off functioning on the caskets on Friday, and we have 8 of them painted,” he claimed. “We are nonetheless talking to the family members as we communicate, and they are at the funeral homes strolling by way of and searching at examples. And then we are listed here in Edna, jotting down the data to get precisely what they want.”
Ganem is creating the custom-made coffins for all of the children other than for just one, but would not elaborate even more. He is also producing the coffin for Eva Mireles, a person of the fourth-quality academics gunned down in her classroom.
He suggests he frequently communicates with the deceased though he’s working on caskets, like victims of Tuesday’s taking pictures, but wouldn’t elaborate.
“It helps me create the caskets,” he reported.
Ganem is no stranger to mass shootings. He worked on coffins for the 26 people killed in the Sutherlands Spring Church taking pictures in 2017, and developed a coffin for Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen, who was killed in 2020. For Guillen’s coffin, he made use of photos of the Mexican and American flags as perfectly as one of the Virgin Mary, he claimed. He also tailored a coffin for Texas rapper 50 Pak, who died in 2017.
Ganem incorporates his layouts into laptop-created pictures and produces “a huge sticker” to wrap all-around the coffins. His son Billy, 27, assists with the wraps.
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He has been clairvoyant because the age of 5, Ganem reported, and has labored as a medium for various yrs.
“It’s been a beautiful matter for me to listen to all of their stories,” he mentioned. “I come to feel like I have become a section of their family members.”