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HOUSTON -- Gloria McInnis was always there for her children and now her family is returning the favor.

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Diana Maldonado wants to know why it took hours to find her mother.

“We are expecting her to come home, we can feel her there and it just doesn’t seem real and we just want to see her,” said McInnis’ daughter, Diana Maldonado.

But that won't happen because McInnis was killed in the Goodyear plant explosion in East Houston Wednesday.

Maldonado and her siblings want to find out why seven hours passed before anyone discovered their mother’s body. “How come it took so long. They knew at 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. We would have known something a lot sooner. Was she alive? Was there something they could have done to save her?”

A medical examiner will answer that question.

But the 31 year veteran Goodyear employee’s family has hired attorney Terry Bryant to try to answer the questions about what happened. “One of their motivations is that this is does not happen to anyone else that no other family has to go through what this family is having to go through.”

After Wednesday's explosion, plant officials admitted to 11 News that there is a gap in their accounting system.

Gloria McInnis was marked ‘accounted for’ even though she was missing.

“I don’t think there’s an excuse for that what they’re telling you. There is a problem with their accounting where they cannot even count the people that are on their property now if they can’t count the people on their property how can they do the accounting for everything else they do out there,” said Bryant.

Gloria’s death is hard enough for her daughters, but this roller coaster ride is making them sick. At this point they’re preparing to say goodbye to their mother.

Goodyear plant officials did not return calls 11 News made to them on Thursday.