Family and friends of Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, one of three children killed in US gun violence this week, remember her as 'shining light' in first Nashville school shooting funeral
Many of the women and girls wore pink dresses to honor the grieving family’s request to dress in pink and green"in tribute to Evelyn's light and love of colour."
The funeral at the Woodmont Christian Church on Friday in Nashville's Green Hills neighbourhood was closed to the media. Before the service, the church's senior minister, the Rev. Clay Stauffer, echoed what Evelyn's family has shared about her."I think our challenge is to take her light and keep spreading it to a world that has so much darkness and pain."
The church is a couple of miles from the school and is across the street from the Woodmont Baptist Church, which served as the reunification point for surviving children and their parents after the attack.
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