Catherine Violet Hubbard

Catherine Violet Hubbard is being honored at a time when she would have been celebrating her 16th birthday and a butterfly party and pet adoption event is being held in her memory this weekend. Catherine was killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

Parents in Texas are just beginning to grapple with losing a child to indiscriminate violence. For mothers and fathers of the first graders who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting, unfathomable loss is something they have known for a decade. It is the case for Jennifer Hubbard, who lost her daughter in that shooting in 2012. Catherine Violet Hubbard…