The hearse was escorted by State and Leominster police from the Brandon Funeral Home in Fitchburg, where a wake was held Monday, to the church, where the funeral Mass began shortly after 10 a.m.
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The Rev. Dennis O’Brien urged mourners to remember Marcotte for the way she lived, not the way she died.
Vanessa Marcotte, 27, went out for an afternoon jog in Princeton.
LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) Family and friends will say their final goodbyes to a New York City woman who was killed while out for a run near her mother’s home in MA.
“You epitomize grace, light, humility, and absolute magic”, Abrahams said. “The headline of the story should be the love that she lived every single day of her life”.
Investigators probing the killing of a New York City woman who went for a run near her mother’s home in central MA and was found dead in the woods Sunday have received about 450 tips.
Authorities say they’ve received hundreds of tips but don’t have any suspects.
Police discovered her body about half a mile from her mother’s home. She was found dead on August 7, hours after her family reported her missing.
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Marcotte was born here and baptized at this church, the only child of John and Rossana Marcotte, a union bricklayer and a secretary. They have said her attacker may have cuts, scratches and bruises from a struggle. “She was kind, compassionate, bright, curious, charming, and vivacious”.
