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I think they have to set up a user name and password for you to use--here is the article:
Hundreds gather for Floral Park sisters who 'loved life'
Originally published: July 19, 2010 10:31 AM
Updated: July 19, 2010 11:17 AM
By ZEKE MILLER. AND GARY DYMSKI. [email protected]., [email protected]
Quick SummaryAbout 300 mourners attended the funeral Mass of two Floral Park sisters who died in a one-car crash last week.
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Kelly Murphy, a passenger in the car accident that killed three camp counselors, attends the funeral for Paige and Jamie Malone at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church. (July 19, 2010)
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Map data ©2010 - Terms of Useview large map At 9:30 a.m. sharp Monday, two dark gray hearses drove slowly to the front of Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church in Floral Park, where about 300 mourners waited outside.
As the hearses passed staff from Camp Anchor, the 50 or so members wearing shirts for the Lido Beach camp raised their right hands in a special tribute, a farewell to the two sisters - their fellow workers - who died last week in a one-car crash.
When the coffins of Paige Malone, 19, and Jamie Malone, 22, were carried into the church, a bagpiper started to play the hymn, "Here I Am, Lord." The girls' parents held onto each other.
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The scene at the funeral Mass for the two sisters was solemn. Three young people, all from Floral Park, lost their lives in the single-car crash Thursday on the Meadowbrook Parkway. The funeral for Michael Mulhall, 22, a passenger and also a counselor, is Tuesday, at the same church.
"They left us in the springtime of their lives," the Rev. Bruno Dekrem, associated pastor of the church, said. "It doesn't make sense. We have no words. Death makes no sense."
As Dekrem addressed mourners, a drizzle began to fall.
Dekrem said that all of Floral Park was paying its respects to the sisters and their family. "We come, all together," he said, mentioning that so many people from the Town of Hempstead and Nassau County were on hand.
Dekrem said that Jaime and Paige shared a "faith in Jesus and transformed it into their lives. They loved life. They loved their family, and you, friends."
The coffins were brought out of the church, back to the hearses, to "Amazing Grace."
Before the hearses arrived, more than 200 people were in line to enter the church and about 100 more mingled outside the church on Floral Parkway.
One of two who survived the crash, Kelly Murphy, 20, attended the funeral wearing a neck brace.
Police blocked off about a half-dozen streets around the church. Speakers were set up so those who couldn't gain access to the inside of the church could hear the Mass and sermon.
Meanwhile, in Virginia, about 125 community members, mostly faculty and staff, gathered Monday morning at the Cannon Memorial Chapel on the campus of the University of Richmond, where the sisters went to school.
Jamie, who had just graduated, was to begin teaching in the fall at a Virginia elementary school. Paige was an accounting major.
At the family's request, a scholarship fund bearing the names of Jamie and Paige has been established, according to university officials.
Legis. Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) asked for a moment of silence Monday to honor the three from Floral Park at a meeting of the Nassau County Legislature. The moment was observed at 11:35 a.m.
With Reilly Moore and William Murphy
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