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Angela Drake- last seen: 12/09/05
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:22 am    Post subject: Funeral Held Reply with quote

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wisc/20060102/lo_wisc/3153925


Family, Friends Attend Drake's Funeral Sun Jan 1, 7:48 PM ET



About 1,000 people packed an Oregon church on Friday to remember and celebrate the life of Angela Drake.


Drake, 25, disappeared from a Fitchburg bar earlier this month and was found dead last week.

The funeral, which began at 11 a.m., was held at Holy Mother of Consolation Catholic Church in Oregon.

Friday's service was only a continuation of an outpouring of community support, WISC-TV reported. It began weeks ago when the woman was listed as missing. On Thursday night, people filled lines around the church for five hours during a visitation. The crowds were in full force again on Friday for Drake's funeral. The church was filled with people and praise for a woman whose life was cut short.

Numerous Oregon and Madison emergency and firefighter personnel, including Madison's fire chief, were in attendance.

The people turned up to help her family through its shocking loss, and to remember Drake with uplifting songs and powerful words.

The service interwove music and memories. It didn't focus on how Drake died, but on how she lived. She was described as a loving person.

The Rev. Bill Connell said that Angela means angel, and that she embodied the spirit of Christmas. Connell gave her credit for opting to become a home health nurse.

"To choose to become a nurse is a caring profession and she certainly had a caring relationship to people she serves," Connell said.

At one point, Connell went over and introduced Marco, the little boy for whom Drake cared, so as to illustrate the selfless choices Drake made during her life.

The Drake family chose not to speak at the service.

On Thursday, details about what Fitchburg police suspect might have happened in the death of the Oregon woman emerged. (For more information about the police's arrest affidavit, read this story.)

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