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FRIENDS AND FAMILY SAY GOODBYE TO RONIA MANSOURIAN
Montreal Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Friends+family+goodbye+Ronia+Mansourian/3500849/story.html
Sept 10 2010
QC
Laval student killed last week in a hit-and-run accident
MONTREAL - Around 400 friends and family members of Ronia Mansourian
packed the pews of St. Gregory The Illuminator Armenian Church Friday
morning for the funeral services of the 15-year-old Laval teen who
was struck down by a driver last Friday.
"She was my cousin and she was my sister, and now she's my guardian
angel," said her cousin, Christine Bedrossian, addressing the crowd
of mourners.
Many of Mansourian's classmates from Ecole Secondaire Saint Maxime,
the Laval school where she had just started her ninth grade , were
present to bid her farewell.
"She has brought together the whole school," said her former English
teacher Fatima Fernandez, adding that a room in the building had become
a makeshift memorial for Mansourian, with several students decorating
it with pictures and other mementos from their time with the teen.
The somber ceremony unfolded mostly in Armenian. "We can't find the
adequate words to express our grief, " said Pastor George Zabarian.
"Only silence can properly commemorate this tragic situation."
The victim's grandmother, Anahid Mansourian, was quiet in the church
but became overcome with emotion once outside, as the coffin was
carried away by pallbearers.
"Don't take Ronia away, don't take her coffin away, " she said in
tears. "Where are you going Ronia?"
Laval Police have arrested Robert Belanger, 22, in connection with
Mansourian's death.
He has been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing
death, as well as leaving the scene of an accident where the driver
knows bodily harm has been caused.
The accident occurred last Friday as Mansourian was crossing a street
in Laval. Police allege that Belanger hit her in a white Buick Regal,
knocking her into the windshield of a bus, and sped away.
From: A. Papazian
Montreal Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Friends+family+goodbye+Ronia+Mansourian/3500849/story.html
Sept 10 2010
QC
Laval student killed last week in a hit-and-run accident
MONTREAL - Around 400 friends and family members of Ronia Mansourian
packed the pews of St. Gregory The Illuminator Armenian Church Friday
morning for the funeral services of the 15-year-old Laval teen who
was struck down by a driver last Friday.
"She was my cousin and she was my sister, and now she's my guardian
angel," said her cousin, Christine Bedrossian, addressing the crowd
of mourners.
Many of Mansourian's classmates from Ecole Secondaire Saint Maxime,
the Laval school where she had just started her ninth grade , were
present to bid her farewell.
"She has brought together the whole school," said her former English
teacher Fatima Fernandez, adding that a room in the building had become
a makeshift memorial for Mansourian, with several students decorating
it with pictures and other mementos from their time with the teen.
The somber ceremony unfolded mostly in Armenian. "We can't find the
adequate words to express our grief, " said Pastor George Zabarian.
"Only silence can properly commemorate this tragic situation."
The victim's grandmother, Anahid Mansourian, was quiet in the church
but became overcome with emotion once outside, as the coffin was
carried away by pallbearers.
"Don't take Ronia away, don't take her coffin away, " she said in
tears. "Where are you going Ronia?"
Laval Police have arrested Robert Belanger, 22, in connection with
Mansourian's death.
He has been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing
death, as well as leaving the scene of an accident where the driver
knows bodily harm has been caused.
The accident occurred last Friday as Mansourian was crossing a street
in Laval. Police allege that Belanger hit her in a white Buick Regal,
knocking her into the windshield of a bus, and sped away.
From: A. Papazian