Arlene Edwards

Arlene Edwards, 37, and her daughter Jolene Edwards, 19, left their Portland, Oregon, home on the morning of May 18 and wound Arlene’s Dodge pickup up logging roads to a viewpoint south of Elk Rock, 10 miles northwest of the mountain. Arlene was a freelance photographer; Jolene was a waitress engaged to her high school sweetheart. They scrambled up to the 3,800-foot summit with their dogs and were taking photographs when the mountain erupted. The blast blew Arlene from the summit onto a hemlock tree below; she died from chest injuries sustained in the impact. Jolene died of ash asphyxiation after she was blown into some trees near her mother’s four-wheel drive.