Hundreds of people are expected to attend the funeral Monday of an 11-year-old Henry County boy struck and killed while heading to the school bus.
Thomas Conor Burch, of Locust Grove, died Thursday morning after being airlifted to the hospital. Conor, the son of Capt. Jim Burch with the Henry County Police Department, attended Locust Grove Middle School and wore No. 23 for his little league baseball team.
Visitation for Conor will be held Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Haisten Funeral Home on South Zack Hinton Parkway in McDonough. The funeral will be Monday at 3 p.m. at St. James Catholic Church on Ga. 155 in McDonough.
A Conor Burch Memorial Fund has been set up at the McDonough-Keys Ferry branch of Heritage Bank, a spokesman for the police department said Friday.
Conor was remembered by friends and classmates at a vigil Thursday evening at Warren Holder Park, where the sixth-grader played little league baseball.
“He always had a smile on his face, whether he struck out or hit the ball,” teammate Chandler Harris told Channel 2 Action News. “If he struck out, he’d come into the dugout saying, ‘We’ll get ‘em next time.’ It just hurts me really bad to see him go. I played ball with him since I was 4."
The Georgia State Patrol said Friday afternoon the wreck that killed Conor remains under investigation. Deputies plan to review video footage from the school bus to determine whether it was stopped -- and therefore had its lights on and stop arm extended -- when the boy was struck by a van traveling from the opposite direction.
No charges have been filed against the driver.
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