From Boston-
Mourners sang hymns through tears, their voices filling the brick cathedral with an anguished, quavering strain. As relatives tenderly draped palls over four caskets carrying a slain family to rest, some lifted moist eyes to the wooden rafters, as if in search of answers.
But most stared forlornly at the coffins that stretched the width of the majestic church.
In a raw, heart-rending funeral service, hundreds of relatives, friends, and neighbors of the slain members of the Stone Mortimer family gathered yesterday at the Parish of The Epiphany near the center of this picturesque suburb, sitting shoulder to shoulder in the pews in an outpouring of shared grief. Among them were those who hardly knew the family, but felt personally obliged to extend their sympathies for such a staggering loss and horrific crime.
“I can’t even imagine what they are going through,’’ said one Winchester resident, who declined to give her name out of respect for the family. “How can you? It’s beyond all comprehension.’’
Earlier this month, the bodies of Ragna Ellen Stone, 64; her daughter, Laura Stone Mortimer, 41; and Stone Mortimer’s children, 2-year-old Charlotte Mortimer and 4-year-old Thomas “Finn’’ Mortimer V, were discovered inside their Windsong Lane home. They were bludgeoned and slashed to death, and authorities have charged the children’s father, Thomas Mortimer IV, with four counts of first-degree murder. A 43-year-old sales executive, Mortimer is being held without bail after authorities captured and arrested him in Western Massachusetts.
More here-
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/06/25/amid_shared_grief_winchester_bids_farewell_to_slain_family/
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