BRYAN COUNTY, Ga. () — Tuesday, April 22 marks 10 years since five nursing students were killed in an early morning pileup on I-16.

April 22, 2015, was the final day of clinical rotations for nursing students Abbie Deloach, Catherine Mckay Pittman, Emily Clark, Caitlyn Baggett and Morgan Bass.

“How do you summarize 10 years?” said Jimmy Deloach Jr., Abbie’s father. “Well, how do you summarize 21 years and then 10 years of her not being physically present?”

Deloach said he and the other parents share their grief.

“I hurt for the other parents,” he said. “It’s always the toughest at night by yourself the walls close in, your mind starts racing… but you know there’s going to be another night, and another night, and another night, and it’s been 10 years of nights.”

Deloach said at Abbie’s funeral he decided to give her death a new meaning.

“Behind me as I sat, there was grief, anguish, not understanding, darkness, chaos, but on the front side where Abbie’s casket actually was there was a peace, an understanding, a direction.”

Then, he began working to create the Abbie Deloach Foundation which has funded and helped promote academic excellence, service work and student athletics, things his daughter is remembered for.

“When someone is hurt, there’s just that empathy that kicks in, that wanting to just fulfill something that you know that other person couldn’t do,” said Deloach.

The foundation’s more recent work also includes support for parents grieving their children.

The Abbie Deloach Foundation was able to award its largest class yet. Twenty-seven aspiring scholars received $1,000 each to go towards their studies towards health or physical education.