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Lives remembered at string of Conn. services

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Lives remembered at string of Conn. servicesPolice salute as the casket of Josephine Gay is loaded into a hearse after funeral services at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, in Newtown. Gay, was one of 20 children and six adult victims killed in on the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Cody Duty) MANDATORY CREDITCREDIT(Credit: AP)

The community of Newtown, Conn., is wrapping up funerals and memorial services for the 26 children and adults killed on Dec. 14 at an elementary school. A look at services held Saturday:

ANA MARQUEZ-GREENE

A horse-drawn carriage brought the miniature coffin of Ana Marquez-Greene to the church in Bloomfield, Conn., where a thousand mourners gathered to bid goodbye.

The service for the 6-year-old at The First Cathedral church included a performance by Harry Connick Jr., who has played with the girl’s jazz saxophonist father, Jimmy Greene, the Connecticut Post reported.

Family members remembered her as wild-haired child with her own love of music.

“Ana had a song,” said the Rev. Paul Echtenkamp of Glory Chapel International Cathedral in Hartford. “It just came out of her.”

JOSEPHINE GAY

Monsignor Robert Weiss said at the funeral for 7-year-old Josephine Gay that she liked Barbie, her iPad and the color purple.

“Purple is the color of passion,” Weiss said, according to the New Haven Register.

Josephine’s parents, Michele and Bob, remembered how much she liked peanut butter, and how she would request a new spoon for each mouthful. They would find spoons covered with peanut butter in locations throughout the house.

Dozens of emergency responders paid their respects at the start of the service at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Newtown, walking through the church and up to the altar.

EMILIE PARKER

Emilie Parker, 6, was laid to rest in the northern Utah city of Ogden, where people had tied pink ribbons around trees and utility poles in her memory.

Her father, Robbie Parker, was one of the first parents to publicly talk about his loss and he expressed no animosity for the gunman. He’s sustained by the fact that the world is better for having had Emilie in it.

“I’m so blessed to be her dad,” he said.

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