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Published: Mon, October 30, 2017 @ 12:10 a.m.
["291"]Funeral casework for collapsed Girard badge administrator Justin Leo were captivated today at YSU. Thousands of adolescent officers, accompany and ancestors attended.
Thousands payed aftermost respects to collapsed Girard badge administrator Justin Leo during burial serviecs on the YSU campus today.
By Bob Jackson
news@vindy.com
YOUNGSTOWN
It was a active arena back about 1,000 badge admiral rose to their feet, saluted and stood at unified absorption as a casket accustomed the anatomy of collapsed Girard badge Administrator Justin Leo was brought into Beeghly Centermost on Sunday.
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This Arkansas Police Officer Is Going Viral for All the Right Reasons | officer normanOfficer Leo’s parents, Pat and David Leo, followed carefully abaft the flag-draped casket as it was placed abreast the centermost of the attic of the Youngstown State University auditorium, which became a quiet basilica for Administrator Leo’s burial service. As is accepted for badge funerals, bagpipes played while the casket was actuality confused and placed in position.
The account included readings and commendations from Administrator Leo’s ancestors and friends, including his boss, Girard Badge Chief John Norman.
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“It’s been a boxy week, a boxy few days,” Norman said in an afflicted voice. Several times during his remarks, Norman paused to accumulate himself. “It’s times like these that accomplish us admiration why we do this. The acumen is that we all appetite to accomplish a difference. In their best atrocious times, bodies appetite us there, and we appetite to be there.”
Norman lamented that Leo’s name will now be carved into the National Law Enforcement Admiral Memorial in Washington, D.C., and cited these words that are categorical there: “It is not how these admiral died that fabricated them heroes, it is how they lived.”
Hundreds of law-enforcement admiral and officers, apery jurisdictions all beyond Ohio and surrounding states, abounding the stands on the west ancillary of the amphitheater to account their collapsed brother. Afore absolute his remarks, Norman asked all of them to stand, and again asked Mr. and Mrs. Leo to stand, about-face around, and face the sea of dejected that was abaft them.
["945.75"]“Please attending at these men and women,” Norman said to the Leos. “This is your family. They will be with you wherever you go.”
Monsignor John Zuraw of St. Rose Catholic Church in Girard, who officiated, again offered a appropriate adoration for God’s aegis over the law-enforcement community, which was followed by a continued acclaim from others in attendance.
Monsignor Zuraw said it’s accustomed to catechism why Administrator Leo was taken at the adolescent age of 31, and added it’s accepted for bodies to say it was artlessly God’s will.
He disagreed with that notion, though.
“We cannot say that this happened because God capital Justin in heaven,” Zuraw said. “God was with Justin on every alarm he went out on, God was with Justin the moment he was shot, God was with Justin the moment he died.”
Another catechism created by Leo’s death, Zuraw said, is, “What are we activity to do about the amateurish masterpiece of Justin’s life?”
He encouraged the mourners to account Leo by active honorable, honest, appropriate lives, aloof as Leo did.
["1067"]“Life is not fair,” Zuraw said. “But be as able and bent as Justin was, adventurous of the approaching and accessible to accommodated challenges every day.”
Jenna Boris, one of Leo’s cousins, batten of how she and Justin artificial a abutting band as accouchement and remained abutting as they grew up.
“He had a appropriate way with bodies that best bodies don’t have,” Boris said. “He didn’t accept to try to affix with people. He aloof did.”
Another cousin, Jackie Swick, said Leo’s was a agilely aristocratic life.
“There are bodies who do acceptable things, again go out and acquaint bodies about it,” Swick said. “And there are bodies who do abundant things and acquaint no one, like Justin.”
Chrissy Stonebraker-Martinez, who was Leo’s best friend, said abounding bodies didn’t apprehend he was a poet.
“He generally said that he, and we, are all accouchement of the divine,” she said, afore account a Scripture from the book of Daniel.
["945.75"]Girard Mayor Jim Melfi additionally offered a Scripture account from the New Testament.
Funeral arrange were by Blackstone Burial Home in Girard.
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