Amish to bury fifth girl killed in school shooting
Mourners today prepared to bury a fifth Amish girl who was gunned down in a US school classroom and faced the possibility that at least one of five other girls wounded in the shooting could die.
The funeral of 12-year-old Anna Mae Stoltzfus was scheduled a day after bearded men in black suits and women in dresses and bonnets attended funerals for the four other young girls killed in Monday’s shooting in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
A sixth victim was reported in grave condition. County coroner Gary Kirchner said he had been contacted by a physician at Penn State Children’s Hospital in Hershey who said doctors were expected to take the girl off life support.
Amish funerals are conducted in German and focus on God, not on commemorating the dead.
There is no singing, but ministers read hymns and passages from the Bible and an Amish prayer book.
