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Show Funeral Services For Escalante Teen Draw Mourning Hundreds ESCALANTE More than 800 mourners attended funeral services ser-vices held Monday at the Escalante LDS Stake Center for Sherilyn Piquet, the friendly and popular Escalante High School junior whose young life ended abruptly a week previously when she was shot in the chest. With less than 4500 residents in all of Garfield County, folks here are accustomed to sharing shar-ing one another's joys and sadness. Several hundred had attended a viewing at the church the previous evening in support of the family that has faced so much trauma in the past week, and equal numbers followed to the small cemetery at the edge of town. The pretty 16-year-old was laid to her final rest amongst a profusion of flowers under un-der a cold and somber sky with the broad expanse of the Escalante Mountains and Aquarius Plateau in the distance. Her funeral, one of the largest ever experienced in the county, was marked by the presence of law enforcement en-forcement personnel from Garfield, Kane and Wayne Counties and (See Funeral Services Held For Sherilyn Piquet on Page 2A) V Funeral Services Draw Hundreds From Page 1 from others states, friends of Sherilyn's stepfather, Escalante Police Chief Kent Robinson. Unusually high numbers of young people, her friends from schools all over the county, helped to fill the chapel to overflowing. The services ser-vices themselves were specially set to take place following the annual state competition for 1A basketball held in Cedar City Wednesday through Saturday. Sherilyn's boyfriend was a member of Escalante's Varsity team whose members wore black arm bands in remembrance of their young friend. Sherilyn's drill team friends wore jeweled pink heart-shaped ribbons to commemorate their loss. Grief-stricken Grief-stricken family members who attended at-tended were heartened by the open display of young love and friendship friend-ship before the thousands of basketball bas-ketball fans at the Centrum in Cedar City. Monday's services were marked by their simplicity, with friends and family members' tributes punctuated punctu-ated by audible sobs from the mourners gathered to pay their respects.. re-spects.. Sherilyn's spiritual leader, LDS Bishop Clem Griffin, presented pre-sented the church's Young Woman hood Recognition Award to Analee Robinson, the teen's mother. Sheri-lyn Sheri-lyn had completed all the church's requirements to earn the award but normally would have had to wait until she was 18 to receive it. Musical tributes were all offered by close friends and family in a community where everyone is a close friend when tragedy strikes. Sherilyn's pallbearers were her brothers and her young school friends. Her honorary pallbearers and her flower girls were all her cousins, her classmates, and the "tough little guys and little sweeties" sweet-ies" for whom she was a cherished baby-sitter. |
