Her son was Dylan Klebold, one of two students who killed 13 people in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in. "Cassie Bernall deserved to have a book written about her, but if there was reason to believe that it wasn't truthful, then it's a disservice to her memory and to the community. While hundreds of mourners crowded today's televised funeral for 17-year-old Rachel Scott, a victim of the attack, Klebold's low-key service at a mortuary 20 miles northeast of Littleton was attended by his parents, his older brother and 10 others, Marxhausen said. Police said the parents of both teenagers "are being interviewed" in detail by investigators. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. He would get irritated when we corrected his driving, and do that teenage eye roll thing. Exhausted by the tragedy, Marxhausen took a three-month sabbatical. Marxhausen believes firmly in a loving, forgiving God and a nuanced approach to questions of salvation. How do you preside over the funeral of a 17-year-old boy who went to school one Tuesday morning and, with his good buddy Eric Harris, massacred 13 people just for fun? "She said yes with her life. 'Because you think, "how can I possibly feel happy when this terrible thing has happened? Those who were there watched as the bodies ofSyed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the attackers whoshot and killed14 peopleata holiday party in California last month, were cleansed, wrapped in white cloth and lowered into the ground in accordance with Muslimtradition. I was very unstructured about it, she said of religion. Yet it is not hard to find students here who thought of them as harmless, or even liked them, who saw their sensitivity and potential. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Franklin Graham was beating me up through my TV, he says. His death certificate lists his final resting place as the only entirely Muslim cemetery in South Florida. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. Would I do a funeral for his son? "The parents should have been aware of it," Jefferson County Sheriff John P. Stone declared at a news briefing. The video of the memorial reveals a service heavy on Christianity, with church officials and references to Jesus Christ. Add to your scrapbook. Can I pick and choose? The search has turned up remnants of at least 13 of the men responsible, according to the New York Times. Marxhausen and Kirsten (and their colleagues) were engaged in spiritual triage, tending to hundreds of traumatized families. Accompanied by a policeman, the pastorpresided over Klebolds sparsely attended funeral. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. 17:21 09 Jul 2021, updated 00:59 10 Jul 2021. But he didn't feel like he fit in at Columbine High School in Colorado. He wasnt raised Jewish. 'But at this stage in my life, I guess I would say, yes, I am. ", "Our sadness and grief over his death and this tragedy are indescribable," the statement said, and the Klebolds again apologized "to all those who have also suffered a loss of their loved one, and we continue to pray for the recovery of those who were injured. "Tom Klebold told me he thought he had a good finished product." ___Their son, Dylan Klebold, 17, would have graduated from Columbine High School this spring and was planning to attend the University of Arizona in the fall. Review. She felt frustrated and surprised by what he had done, and told him that he needed to live by the 10 Commandments. When he came back in September, it was clear this wasnt my church anymore, he says. Andwho mourns a murderer? She also used the words toxic and judgmental. She said she doesnt know a single Jewish person in town, and one December, when she tried to buy Hanukkah candles at the grocery store, the clerks looked at her blankly. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Try again later. Each funeral was special in its own way, just like the person who was buried. "I was becoming somewhat toxic with my visibility and extrovertedness.". She isnt aware of any synagogue in Littleton, and a Google search doesnt turn up results. A Navy pilot in Vietnam, Kirsten had seen horrors. This was emphasized both by the congregations former spiritual leader, Rabbi Judith Beiner, now of Overland Park, Kan., and its current president, Daniel Rothschild, in comments to the Intermountain Jewish News. Nobel: Bob Dylan or Philip Roth? Two days before the shooting, Cassie had recorded a video of herself testifying to her faith in Christ. But its something. And so when a desperate Tom Klebold phoned, the pastora liberal-minded Lutheranagreed to arrange a private service. He had performed the marriage of Misty and Brad Bernall in 1980; more recently, he had helped guide their teenage daughter Cassie through a dark and rebellious time. We look forward to your early visit. Yet the Rev. Burying the infamous: How killers from San Bernardino to Columbine are quietly laid to rest, Four reasons a credit-card balance transfer may be a bad idea, Dont let paying for a funeral add to your grief, Beware of these pitfalls when planning your own funeral. There were fewer mourners than there might have been, Reutersreported many who knew the dead refused to attend. What is Archives, Military records of Dylan B Klebold at Fold3.com. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. He admired Hitler, yet his great-great grandfather was a respected Jewish philanthropist in Ohio. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. A small mountain of beanie babies was piled around the boy's head, covering the self-administered wound that killed him. For months Sue was in denial about what her her son had done: 'They said the boys did all these terrible things. Her son was Dylan Klebold, one of two studentswho killed 13 people in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado. For more information, please see our Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds to their heads in the library a little after noon. His father was very enraged that day, asking who would give his son a gun. Klebold, along with classmate Eric Harris, killed 12 fellow students and one teacher on April 20 before they committed suicide. Littleton was ground zero for the kind of white, evangelical Christianity that was sweeping the country at the time. I called John Horan of Horan & McConaty Funeral Service, Denver, Colorado, and together we made funeral arrangements for Dylan Klebold. Christ always goes where its darkest. Marxhausen, now nearly 70, is a burly, plain-spoken man who arrived in Littleton in 1990, and built St. Philip Lutheran Church into a thriving, mainline congregation with more than 1,000 members. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. DENVER Dylan Klebold, one of two suspects in last week's bloodbath at Columbine High School, led a life of contradictions. Rabbi Raymond Zwerin of Denvers Temple Sinai might have been speaking on behalf of many area Jews when he questioned the apparent media fascination with the issue. While Dylan had run into trouble for stealing in the past, Sue believed her son was in a good place, happy that her he was employed, doing extracurricular activities and set to go to a university of his choice. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. Dylan Klebold helped perpetrate one of the bloodiest school shootings in history, indelibly etching the name "Columbine" into our collective memories. God, who knows about suffering and pain and loss, wants to reach out to you, he told the grieving parents, according to news accounts. I turned it off., Still, Marxhausen might have survived the Columbine tragedy with his job intact were it not for his continued relationship with the Kleboldsand his very public support of them. Sometimes families go from funeral home to funeral home, cemetery to cemetery searching for a placewilling to offer a gravesite. Recalling the day her son was buried, Ms Klebold said he was laid to rest in a cardboard box, and broke down into floods of tears as she said she wanted to 'crawl in that casket with him' and was desperate to understand what drove her son to commit such an atrocious crime. She appeared onBBC Four documentary Raising a School Shooter where she broke down while remembering his funeral, The 72-year-old said broke don in floods of tears as she revealed that her son was laid to rest in a cardboard box, and that she was terrified to leave the premise in case someone 'hurt him' or stole his body, Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire at their suburban Denver school, killing 13 people and injuring a further 24 in the attack, For months Sue was in denial about what her her son had done and police had to show footage of her son andHarris openly speaking about the attack. As he preached, Marxhausen could see Dylan, laid out before him in an open coffin. "I pushed [the pain] down, and I did that again with Columbine. A memorial service for Dylan B Klebold. Columbine high school shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold appear in this video capture of a surveillance tape released by the Jefferson County. It was very important to me that I immediately tell Sue that I was there to love her and comfort her, and that I was not sitting in judgment of her. Despite being tormented by guilt, Sue says she is finally in a better place: 'You might have days where you start to smile or forget for a while who you are and what has happened to you. Following the shooting, Sue said their entire community was 'in chaos', and that their local governor went on television to hold the parents responsible, which started 'open season on their family'. One toted a sign that read, Do not bury him on U.S. soil. A driver passing by shouted, Throw him off a boat like Osama bin Laden.. Britta Lokting is the Forwards culture fellow. On the Sunday between Dylan's funeral and Cassie's, 70,000 mourners gathered in a parking lot to listen to Franklin Graham, among others, proclaim the gospel. In his sermon, Marxhausen spoke of God's love. Sorry! They are buried at a California cemetery far from their home because a closer graveyard would not take the bodies. 'I had been grieving so much for this lost previous child and remembering who he was and that was the point I realised who he was to the rest of the world, everything died in my world, God died, my belief in truth in what my family was.'. Sometimes graves are not marked for the opposite reason: Authorities fear they might become a place of worship. "What I remember most is this tremendous barrage of very hurting people," he says. Sunday attendance has declined from 2,000 in 1999 to about 1,100 today. Funeral director Peter Stefan, who agreed to prepare Tsarnaevs burial, said he received angry calls and mail from people who thought it un-American to handle funeral services for a killer. Before McVeighs death, Congress passed a law to ensure that the Gulf War veteran couldnt be buried in Arlington National Cemetery; he was later cremated, and his ashes were spread at an undisclosed location. After Columbine, local evangelicalswho said the shootings were the devils work and who used the tragedy as an opportunity to bring people to Jesusinfuriated him. Eric Harris, along with Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 13 people and injured 20 at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The work is like cataloging hell, as New York magazine put it. 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