Alexa Layne Gourley, 3-months, peers out from her stroller after arriving in Salt Lake City, delighting her two granparents, Lamonte Hansen and Jerome Gourley who saw her for the first time under bitter-sweet circumstances. Alexa Layne only knew her father for the first two months of her life before he was deployed to Iraq. His body returned home from Iraq after he was killed by a roadside bomb.
Salt Lake Tribune photo by Francisco Kjolseth. |