Mourners began the heartbreaking task Friday of saying goodbye to victims of the Highland Park shooting.
CHICAGO — Mourners began the heartbreaking task Friday of saying goodbye to victims of the Highland Park shooting, cherishing what made their loved ones special while decrying the sudden, senseless violence that ended their lives.
“If there is any purpose today moving forward,” Rabbi Wendi Geffen said of Sundheim, “it is to ensure that her memory will abide solely and wholly as a blessing, now and forever.” Sundheim taught preschool at North Shore Congregation Israel and, as coordinator of events such as bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and funerals, touched many lives in the community.She spoke of the volumes of pain and despair Sundheim’s loved ones are feeling, and the risk of “coming to see Jacki’s life only by its end. ... We cannot allow that to happen,”
Just as that service was ending, another was getting underway for Straus at a synagogue a few miles south in Evanston. It followed a private burial, where the opening theme from “2001: A Space Odyssey” was played as his casket was lowered into the ground. “We tell his story. Steve was a good guy. We will never be the same, but we will carry him with us,” she continued.
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