“So it was very emotional to begin with.” “I have daughters myself, as well as granddaughters,” Lisa Correll, who organized the memorial, told WFTS of hearing Petito’s story. Most didn’t know Petito, CNN affiliate WFTS reported, but they still felt a connection to her. The latest memorial was Saturday night, when community members in North Port, Florida – where Petito lived with Laundrie and his parents – gathered at city hall to hold a candlelight vigil and release butterflies in her honor and voice support for her family.
Signs posted across the street bore Petito’s name and read, “Forever in our hearts.”Ī sign honoring Gabby Petito hangs across the street from the Long Island funeral home where her family and members of the public gathered Sunday, September 26, 2021. Outside, members of the public waited at least an hour to get inside and pay their respects, at one point standing in a line that wrapped itself around the building. Attendees walked by, eyeing the photos and a collage of photographs showing her through the years, while others gathered together, hugging and talking. Petito provides “an example for all of us to live by,” Schmidt said, “to enjoy every moment in this beautiful world, as she did – to love and give love to all like she did.”įootage from a livestream of the event Sunday provided by the funeral home showed an altar surrounded by pictures of Petito. That’s not how this is supposed to work.” Petito’s stepfather, Jim Schmidt, also gave a eulogy, telling those gathered, “Parents aren’t supposed to bury their children. Mourners gather at a funeral home to pay respects to Gabby Petito on Septemin Holbrook, New York. His whereabouts remain unknown as authorities continue their search – now over a week old – for the 23-year-old. “If there’s a relationship that you’re in that might not be the best thing for you, leave it now,” he said, an apparent reference to his daughter’s relationship with her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who returned home to Florida from a cross-country road trip without Petito on September 1. “If there’s a trip that you guys want to take, take it now. “I want you to be inspired by Gabby, that’s what we’re looking for,” Joseph Petito said.
She made others feel welcome, he said, and she loved being outdoors, scuba diving, hiking the Appalachian Trail or snowboarding down sand dunes in Colorado. One week after his daughter’s remains were found in a national forest in Wyoming, Joseph Petito described his daughter in a eulogy as a “happy girl,” who people would gravitate toward. Gabby Petito was remembered as a kind, loving and adventurous young woman on Sunday, when her family, friends and complete strangers gathered in Holbrook, New York, on Long Island to pay their respects.
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