On Aug. 13 a gust of wind caused a stage to collapse at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis just before the country duo Sugarland was to perform. Among the victims -- seven people were killed and more than 40 were injured -- was the oldest of Oakley’s three children, 24-year-old Meagan Toothman. She died Aug. 22.
“It feels like years since I’ve talked to her or seen her,” Oakley says in her Anderson Township home, with her husband of 20 years, Tim Oakley, at her side.
“We have good days and not-so-good days,” she says. “Sometimes, it’s just something little that will come over you – that realization that she is gone.”
The family chose not to speak to the news media in the weeks after the accident, and they won’t discuss the lawsuit that has been filed against Sugarland, stage riggers, producers and others by Meagan’s estate and several dozen other plaintiffs, including seven local survivors.
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