"Family, friends say goodbye to 19-year-old quake victim; Gengel remembered as voice for the poor" by Kathy McCabe, Globe Staff | February 21, 2010
WORCESTER - The tearful father of 19-year-old Britney Gengel, whose love for his only daughter led him to mobilize US officials to search for her missing body amid the rubble of Haiti’s earthquake, yesterday called her a “shining star’’ whose generous heart inspired her to help people in one of the world’s poorest countries....
Well that sure sucks!
Gengel, his wife, Cherylann, and sons Bernard and Richard, delivered an emotional eulogy during a solemn funeral Mass that drew quiet laughter as well as tears from a congregation that included US and Haitian officials....
The Gengels initially were told that Britney had survived, which prompted her father to shout joyfully “she’s alive’’ to television news crews. But the report was later found to be false, and en route to Florida for what they thought was going to be a reunion with Britney, her stunned parents learned that two professors and four students, including their daughter, were still missing.
Just wondering why the Globe keeps covering up the company's name and links in subsequent articles, and wonder if the true purpose at the hotel (and the interminable delay in recovering the girl's body) had more to do with covering up the organ, sex-slave, and drug-running rings.
Suspicion now falls on ALL the GLOBALIST NON-PROFITS and PUBLIC SERVICES that are in the shambles that was and is Haiti.
I mean, it is NOT LIKE the AmeriKan MSM is going to tell you or pursue those things I've mentioned. They are too busy pushing and promoting their agenda.
Leonard Gengel urgently appealed to US officials, all the way up to President Obama, to help find Britney and the others. He traveled to Haiti with a contingent, including US Representative James McGovern, a Worcester Democrat whose district includes Rutland, where the Gengel family lives.
Related: It Helps to Have Friends in Haiti
And in Washington.
Gengel did not find his daughter’s body, but the trip is widely believed to have stepped up rescue efforts. Yesterday, the grief-stricken father singled out McGovern, US Senator John F. Kerry, and other state and local officials, for bringing home his missing daughter’s body, and family and friends for supporting the family in the past month....
Kerry, McGovern, US Senator Scott Brown, and Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray were among officials in attendance, as well as Emmanuelle Dupiton, Consul of the Consulate of Haiti. The Rev. Robert J. McManus, bishop of the Diocese of Worcester, was among nine clergy, including two Haitian priests from the Boston area, who participated in the 90-minute Mass, marked by prayer, silence, and song, including a performance of “We are the World’’ by the choir at Wachusett Regional High School, where Britney graduated in 2008.
“This has been a story of faith all the way through,’’ said the Rev. John Madden, pastor of St. John’s Church, where the Gengel family worships.
Madden noted the “unspeakably terrible’’ destruction in Haiti, and said Britney was there to do God’s work. “God calls us to serve one another,’’ he said as mourners listened in silence....
Yeah, except I fear God had nothing to do with it:
Did a Plucked HAARP Hit Haiti?
There are more things than heaven and earth, readers.
She was also a normal teenager. Her mother recalled the spirited teen whom she’d drop off at the movies with a girlfriend - only to later learn her daughter had sneaked out the back door to meet a boyfriend. At 15, before she was old enough to drive, Britney and a friend borrowed Cherylann’s car to go for an ice cream in another town. “Britney was not perfect, OK?’’ her mother said to laughter....
Yeah, let's leave it on a happy note, huh?
Glob so often does.
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