CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The mother of Breanna Wood, a young woman who was found murdered more than two years ago, spoke with 3News Thursday about her mission to create a Victims Memorial Garden along the Corpus Christi Bayfront.
The project is aimed at giving families a place to find peace and honor their loved ones.
Corpus Christi's City Council gave their first approval of the plan during their Tuesday meeting.
The garden will be located at Oleander Point Park along Ocean Drive, a location that takes on a special meeting for Breanna Wood's mother, Fallon Wood. She showed her vision to turn that section of land into a place of peace.
"Not just for myself but all the loved ones who have lost family members, to always keep them alive and their names remembered and never forgotten," Wood said.
Wood came up with the idea for the Nueces County Victims Memorial Garden in the months following the murder of her daughter.
"She has the most beautiful, contagious, big smile, and that will always be, she will always be the angel of Corpus Christi," Wood said.
Breanna had gone missing in late 2016. Fallon said Oleander Point Park was a place she would often visit during that difficult time.
"After Bre went missing, like I said before, it took a while for me to come back to the park I would come to over two years," Wood said. "It took me a year and a half."
Each part of the memorial garden will have its own meaning. It will include an infinity ring walking path with benches and monuments with plaques that will have the names and faces of those who have died -- names like Colton Cavazos, who was killed in a shooting in November of 2016.
Cavazos' mother Sally Rowsey was among those who voiced their support for the garden during Tuesday's City Council meeting.
"There is no better way to honor your loved one than to have your friends and family go and grieve," Rowsey said.
Wood said the City has given its approval, but the effort has been her's alone, from creating a non-profit to raising the money needed for the project -- something she wanted to make clear.
"There's no tax dollars on here, so please don't compare it with, 'Rather fix the streets than build this,'" Wood said. "They are not building it."
Wood said she hopes people will stop and see the garden and all of its plaques.
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