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Hundreds Attend Service for Victim of Las Vegas Shooting

by Associated Press

   TEWKSBURY, MASSACHUSETTS --

   Hundreds of people have gathered to remember a 42-year-old
   Massachusetts woman who was among the 58 people killed in the mass
   shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival.

   The service for Rhonda LeRocque was held Saturday in the auditorium of
   Tewksbury Memorial High School.

   WBZ-TV reports that the Tewksbury woman was remembered as a "fireball"
   and loving woman with a deep faith.

   A wake was held on Friday afternoon at the Nicholas Funeral Parlor in
   Wilmington.

   LeRocque's mother, Priscilla Champagne, says her daughter was at the
   concert with her husband, Jason, their 6-year-old daughter and her
   father-in law.

   The daughter and father-in-law left the event before the shots were
   fired.

   Champagne says LeRocque's husband was next to her when she was shot.