Local parents of a Destrehan High student recently disclosed their daughter, Mia Sanchez Trosclair, 15, died following a Tchefuncte River boating accident Saturday evening, September 9 in the Biloxi, Miss. area.
According to relatives, Trosclair spent the weekend in Biloxi, where she and friends went skiing in the Tchefuncte River using a motorized boat. While being towed in an inner tube, Trosclair was reportedly pulled off course by waves created by the boat and collided with the support column of a bridge, critically injuring the teenager. She later succumbed to her injuries at a local Biloxi area hospital.
Trosclair was “outgoing, lovable, friendly, always smiling – always happy,” her uncle and aunt David and Melanie Lambert said. “She loved the outdoors, she loved sports, she loved people and she loved her classmates.”
Friends of the teenager organized a vigil Thursday evening at the United Methodist Church in Destrehan. Funeral services for Trosclair were held at the Leitz-Eagan Funeral home in Metairie on Friday, with burial services provided at the St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery on River Road in Destrehan.
At just 15 years old, the Destrehan High volleyball player was well-travelled, and had already been to numerous domestic and international destinations, unusual for someone so young.
“She’s been around the world – Paris and London – she loved to travel,” her father Kenneth Trosclair said. “She’s been to Hawaii multiple times; my in-laws are from Mexico, so we always travel to Mexico multiple times a year.”
In recent interviews, the Trosclair family mentioned Mia had donated her hair numerous times to cancer nonprofit organization Lots of Love, and surprisingly in previous discussions with her family had expressed a desire to donate even more of herself in the event of her passing.
“She had conversations with her mom and I that if something ever happened to her, she wanted to donate whatever she could donate,” the elder Trosclair said.
Family members said they honored her request and donated as much as was possible to help others.
“She loved being silly – she was just one of the most amazing people I ever knew,” her father Kenneth said regarding his daughter’s bubbly personality. “She impacted all of her friends’ lives; anybody she met – the friends’ parents, grandparents – it didn’t matter.”
I knew Kenneth in high school. This breaks my heart for them. May she rest in peace. My condolences to Kenny and family!