[Edye Smith]

Surgery offers hope to mother who lost 2 sons in bombing

August 23, 1995

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (CNN) -- A woman who lost both her children in the April 19 federal building bombing now plans to try to start a family again.

Edye Smith, 23, who became a focus of news media attention in the days and weeks following the attack that claimed 168 lives, will undergo surgery Thursday morning to reverse a tubule legation she had two years ago when she thought she would not want any more children.

The operation is being performed free of charge by a doctor in Austin, Texas, at a hospital that also decided against charging a fee for its services.

Smith had always planned to have two children. Her boys Chase, 3, and Colton, 2, died only minutes after she and her mother dropped them off at the day care center in the Murrah Federal Building that fateful morning.

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