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‘I called her my miracle’

By Steven Ryan
Monday, July 24, 2006 - Updated: 10:04 AM EST

 Mourners gathered in South Boston yesterday afternoon to say goodbye to Elisa Santry, the 16-year-old, strawberry-blond Southie girl who died one week ago while hiking in 110-degree weather in the Utah desert with Outward Bound.

Many of Elisa’s peers, along with family members, attended the wake at the J.F. O’Brien and Sons Funeral Home yesterday. Pink and white flowers surrounded the open casket.

“I called her my miracle,” Elisa Woods, her mother, told the Herald Saturday.

Pictures were displayed on poster boards in the visiting room and the lobby, showing Elisa with family and friends. A couple of the photos showed her standing in front of a church after a wedding, while another had her standing alone in a shallow marsh. She was always smiling.

Elisa’s mother, dressed in black, tried to smile as well as she hugged and greeted the mourners. A framed poem entitled “Parents Sorrow” stood on a coffee table in the visiting room. It offered sympathy while saying, “(Elisa) had the beauty of a princess.”

Elisa was on the 16th day of a 22-day program with Outward Bound when she became separated from her group while hiking in the 110-degree heat. She was found dead five hours after her instructors discovered she was missing.

Elisa Woods told the Herald that she initially had to be convinced to allow her daughter go on the trip.
 

She said: “If they told me my little girl would be walking around in 110-degree heat, I would’ve taken her right out.”

 
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