Hershey, even though I am not absolutely sure of your identity, I think that I know. I am very humbled by your comment, and feel that you are a very compassionate and caring spirit, with an abundance of knowledge and inteligence. I feel like you are my guardian angel, at times. This is one of the factors that gives me the courage and determination to seek the truth. We will perservere. The Victims will be reunited with their families and loved ones!...
Glenn, this is so beautiful. What a peaceful place. I hope to make it up there one evening this week to see it in person. hope all is well. I miss our blog Lorie
Change Story Text Size: [-] [+] [Default] Emerson memorial: 'Meredith's love shines down on you today' Hundreds mourn slain hiker at Athens memorial service
By Stephen Gurr sgurr@gainesvilletimes.com Posted: Jan. 11, 2008 4:46 p.m. POSTED Jan. 11, 2008 4:46 p.m.
ATHENS -- The church pews couldn’t hold everyone who came to pay respects to Meredith Emerson on Friday.
More than 400 mourners and well-wishers filled Central Presbyterian Church in Athens for an emotional memorial service for Emerson, the 24-year-old hiker who was slain a week earlier after being abducted from a Union County trail.
“Meredith’s light is reflected by you today, and the light outshines the darkness,” her mother, Susan Emerson, told the gathering. “The darkness doesn’t deserve our time or energy.”
Friends of Emerson, a University of Georgia graduate from Colorado who last lived in Buford, took to the podium to recall a bright, funny, spirited young woman who made friends easily.
“She was a firecracker,” Isaac Wolf said.
Cousin Jason Emerson read from a poem written by Emerson at age 14, prefacing it by saying, “I don’t think she would want us to be permanently bitter about what happened. She would want us to see the light in the darkness.”
Said roommate Julia Karrenbauer, “Meredith’s love shines down on you today.”
The Rev. Robert Bohler Jr. said Emerson’s ordeal had touched many lives across the country and the world. He recalled receiving an e-mail of prayer from Australia, and said, “I would not be at all surprised” if millions had prayed for Emerson.
Bohler asked that the prayers for Emerson’s family continue.
“Don’t stop now because of what has happened,” the reverend said. “Then the darkness will have won.”
Bohler said the trails of the Southeast were now safer.
“Meredith died so that others could live,” he said.
Susan Emerson thanked the hundreds of public safety workers who worked tirelessly to find her daughter. A large contingent of uniformed sheriff’s, police, fire and rescue workers from Gwinnett and Union counties were on hand.
District Attorneys Lee Darragh, Stan Gunter, GBI Special Agent John Cagle and Union County Sheriff Scott Stephens also attended the service, which ended with the singing of “Amazing Grace,” after a slide show of photographs that was accompanied by a woman singing and playing guitar.
Many of the hundreds who attended Friday’s memorial never met Emerson. One was Virginia Baker, the mother of slain University of Georgia law school student Tara Baker, whose 2001 murder remains unsolved. Tara Baker was killed in her Athens apartment the day before her 24th birthday.
“I felt like her life was lived the same as my daughter,” Virginia Baker said after the service. “Such a beautiful life, so full of promise. I felt I had to come here today to pray for their family, because I have walked this same road.”
Baker said Emerson “touched a lot of lives, the same as Tara. And I know they would have been great friends. I just like to think now that they can be.”
In this first-person account of becoming the FBI's top serial-killer hunter and a member of a religious order in an attempt to discern the true nature of good and evil, Roger L. Depue searches for an understanding of how evil develops. Between Good and Evil is Depue's look back at a life spent apprehending criminals, especially serial killers, first as a small-town police chief, then an FBI-SWAT team member, Behavioral Sciences Unit chief, and a developer of revolutionary law enforcement programs. The book also examines Depue's experience studying with the Brothers of the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles in an attempt to discover why a good person like his wife, whom he had lost to cancer, is allowed to die while monstrous criminals get to live. Following his time in the clergy, Depue returned to law-enforcement and today heads one of the world's most elite forensics think tanks, "The Academy".
February 17th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Meredith Hope Emerson, loving, caring, an important part of nature,
She and her dog Ella, loved the mountains and outdoors.
Where the rhodendrum grow , the hemlock stand tall, and the Eagle soars,
Just sitting marvelling at the appalacians; so majestic with splendor,
She and Ella, playing, hiking, and bonding with love,
The forest, inhabitants; birds, and deer meander,
The meadows in Bucktown, will take your breath, and wild azaleas bloom,
The sun rising high, the forest comes alive, the honey bees and Butterflys.
Black bears just lumbering along, the birds singing mother nature’s favorite song.
Hikers come from all over to hike the AT, some hiking it short, some hiking it long,
She and Ella thought of this as a paradise, for whatever it’s worth,
When they were one, with the earth, my only request is, and I pray,
That they meet again on that endless Rainbow Bridge, entering Heaven , Someday.
In nature she’ll be missed, by family, friends, and loved ones.
As our somber nation prays, she was my neighbor for just Four Days……
Vinny……
5 comments:
Hershey, even though I am not absolutely sure of your identity, I think that I know. I am very humbled by your comment, and feel that you are a very compassionate and caring spirit, with an abundance of knowledge and inteligence. I feel like you are my guardian angel, at times. This is one of the factors that gives me the courage and determination to seek the truth. We will perservere. The Victims will be reunited with their families and loved ones!...
Glenn Adams
Glenn,
this is so beautiful. What a peaceful place. I hope to make it up there one evening this week to see it in person. hope all is well. I miss our blog
Lorie
Glenn,
this is a lovely memorial.
Do you still have the photo of the statue of a woman, with smoke or a mist in the photo? could you repost it?
I've been staying away from Greta's blog until this morning, and it didn't take long for folks to get hateful. That's such a shame.
Janet
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Emerson memorial: 'Meredith's love shines down on you today'
Hundreds mourn slain hiker at Athens memorial service
By Stephen Gurr
sgurr@gainesvilletimes.com
Posted: Jan. 11, 2008 4:46 p.m.
POSTED Jan. 11, 2008 4:46 p.m.
ATHENS -- The church pews couldn’t hold everyone who came to pay respects to Meredith Emerson on Friday.
More than 400 mourners and well-wishers filled Central Presbyterian Church in Athens for an emotional memorial service for Emerson, the 24-year-old hiker who was slain a week earlier after being abducted from a Union County trail.
“Meredith’s light is reflected by you today, and the light outshines the darkness,” her mother, Susan Emerson, told the gathering. “The darkness doesn’t deserve our time or energy.”
Friends of Emerson, a University of Georgia graduate from Colorado who last lived in Buford, took to the podium to recall a bright, funny, spirited young woman who made friends easily.
“She was a firecracker,” Isaac Wolf said.
Cousin Jason Emerson read from a poem written by Emerson at age 14, prefacing it by saying, “I don’t think she would want us to be permanently bitter about what happened. She would want us to see the light in the darkness.”
Said roommate Julia Karrenbauer, “Meredith’s love shines down on you today.”
The Rev. Robert Bohler Jr. said Emerson’s ordeal had touched many lives across the country and the world. He recalled receiving an e-mail of prayer from Australia, and said, “I would not be at all surprised” if millions had prayed for Emerson.
Bohler asked that the prayers for Emerson’s family continue.
“Don’t stop now because of what has happened,” the reverend said. “Then the darkness will have won.”
Bohler said the trails of the Southeast were now safer.
“Meredith died so that others could live,” he said.
Susan Emerson thanked the hundreds of public safety workers who worked tirelessly to find her daughter. A large contingent of uniformed sheriff’s, police, fire and rescue workers from Gwinnett and Union counties were on hand.
District Attorneys Lee Darragh, Stan Gunter, GBI Special Agent John Cagle and Union County Sheriff Scott Stephens also attended the service, which ended with the singing of “Amazing Grace,” after a slide show of photographs that was accompanied by a woman singing and playing guitar.
Many of the hundreds who attended Friday’s memorial never met Emerson. One was Virginia Baker, the mother of slain University of Georgia law school student Tara Baker, whose 2001 murder remains unsolved. Tara Baker was killed in her Athens apartment the day before her 24th birthday.
“I felt like her life was lived the same as my daughter,” Virginia Baker said after the service. “Such a beautiful life, so full of promise. I felt I had to come here today to pray for their family, because I have walked this same road.”
Baker said Emerson “touched a lot of lives, the same as Tara. And I know they would have been great friends. I just like to think now that they can be.”
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Roger L. Depue: 'Between Good & Evil':
In this first-person account of becoming the FBI's top serial-killer hunter and a member of a religious order in an attempt to discern the true nature of good and evil, Roger L. Depue searches for an understanding of how evil develops. Between Good and Evil is Depue's look back at a life spent apprehending criminals, especially serial killers, first as a small-town police chief, then an FBI-SWAT team member, Behavioral Sciences Unit chief, and a developer of revolutionary law enforcement programs.
The book also examines Depue's experience studying with the Brothers of the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles in an attempt to discover why a good person like his wife, whom he had lost to cancer, is allowed to die while monstrous criminals get to live. Following his time in the clergy, Depue returned to law-enforcement and today heads one of the world's most elite forensics think tanks, "The Academy".
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