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PHOTOS: Future of La Mora, Mexico, unclear

Family members carry caskets toward the ceremony on Nov. 7, 2019, for three of those killed in the vicious attack against a small Mormon community in Sonora on Nov. 4, 2019. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ)

Mourners walked to the graveyard for the burial in La Mora. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ)

After the ceremony, mourners walked to the burial at a small cemetery in La Mora. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Several hundred followed the trucks carrying the coffins to the burial ceremony. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Family carried the coffins to three waiting trucks after the first funeral ceremony. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ )

Dawna Langford's father Jay Ray shares a remembrance of his daughter and grandchildren. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ)

Family members rode to the burial in truck beds carrying the three coffins. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ)

On the morning before the funeral, three boys did their chores washing and milking the cows. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

The road from the community of La Mora into Chihuahua where the LeBarons live. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

La Mora is small town surrounded by pecan and fruit trees in a beautiful river valley. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ)

Three young boys milked cows and did other chores on the morning before the funeral ceremonies. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

A young mourner listens to the funeral ceremony for Dawna Langford and her two children Trevor and Rogan. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

After finishing their morning chores milking the cows, three boys hopped on an ATV to head home. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

An old sign marks the intersection for the road the ambushed vehicles took from La Mora into Chihuahua. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / file | staff)

Family of the massacre's victims head to three waiting trucks, which carried the bodies to a graveyard in La Mora. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ)

Mourners sing a hymn during the funeral for three victims of the massacre in northeastern Sonora on Nov. 7, 2019. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ)

Family members of Dawna Langford and her two young sons Trevor and Rogan shared emotional, heartfelt remembrances of their loved ones. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ)

Family members carry a coffin to the funeral ceremony for Dawna Langford and her two sons Trevor and Rogan on Nov. 7, 2019. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Pomegranate trees heavy with ripe fruit could be found in every corner of La Mora. The small town also grows pecans. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Mourners embrace during the a funeral ceremony for three of the massacre victims — a mother and her two sons — on Nov. 7, 2019, in the community of La Mora in rural Sonora. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Family members of the massacre's victims gathered from around Mexico and the United States. Many children were running around, doing chores or playing before the day's somber events. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ)

Mourners at the funeral for three victims of the massacre in northeastern Sonora on Nov. 7, 2019. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Family members carry a casket toward the ceremony on Nov. 7, 2019, for three of those killed in the vicious attack against a small Mormon community in Sonora on Nov. 4, 2019. (Murphy Woodhouse/KJZZ / editorial | staff)