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One of the three blast victims of an Atmos Energy gas leak has died.
Nancy Foster, a long-time McKinney resident, died at 8 a.m. Sunday morning at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Foster’s laconic grandson, Warren Owena, confirmed Monday morning.
Foster, badly burned in a mid-May series of natural gas explosions that rocked the Fenet St. and Throckmorton Blvd. neighborhood, was receiving treatment for severe burns at Parkland and had remained hospitalized until her death.
In a conversation with McKinneyNews.net in June, Owens said he feared for his 77-year-old grandmother’s life. Foster, Owens said at the time, had already had already undergone one skin graft operation.
“She can speak and you can make out some of the words, but you can’t understand her fully because of the medications she’s taking and the tubes that were down her throat,” Owens told McKinneyNews.net in June. “She’s a strong woman. She’s the only woman in my life that has always shown me love. It eats at you. I would never want anybody to go through this.”
John Paris, president of Atmos Energy’s mid-Texas division, spoke to the media several days after the explosions. Paris said the company followed standard industry practice when it was notified of the leak. A technician, Paris said, was dispatched to the site, performed an expeditious survey of the scene, and established a secure perimeter – all of this while maintaining continual visual contact with the leak.
Owens said funeral arrangements are being made for Foster, but declined for privacy reasons to give more detail.
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