Avid hiker, hospice nurse, wife and mother, Cindy Yuille was remembered today at a Portland ceremony. Yuille was one of two people shot and killed at Clackamas Town Center December 11th.
Clackamas County Sheriff
Victim Cindy Yuille
Hospice chaplain Vitalia Shuster lead off the ceremony with a reading from Helen Keller: "We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world. The company of those who have known suffering."
Yuille and her husband Robert were no strangers to death. They were hospice nurses who met on the job.
Yuille's family asked the several hundred who gathered at a north-side meeting hall not to dwell on the shootings of the past few weeks, but for now, to remember the warm, vibrant, person who threw herself into her work and her family.
Yuille's 22-year-old daughter, Jenna Passalaqua, was among those who spoke at the service.
Jenna Passalaqua "Somehow this will change me. But how exactly I'm not sure yet. But I do think that if nothing else, it will be kinder to other people, and tougher at the same time. Because that's who she was."
April Baer
Robert Yuille says his wife Cindy recalled how they met, on the jo with Kaiser Permanente. She asked him to join her for a Valentine's Day concert. They were together seven years.
A fund has been established for the education of Yuille's stepson, who's 13.
INFO: the Hunter Yuille Education Fund, c/o OnPoint Community Credit Union, P.O. Box 3750, Portland, OR, 97208
This story originally appeared on Oregon Public Broadcasting.
