View the latest documents, pictures, photos and images of or upload the files of your loved one. Christ always goes where its darkest. "We rely heavily on scripture," says Kirsten, "and on the premise that Christ is the ultimate forgiver, the ultimate lover, and that only through him can we know the Lord.". Please, Login or Sign-up to post your comments. It remained unclear at press time what forms of Judaism or Christianity, or what combination of the two, were practiced in the Klebold home. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. The families and survivors grieve, and the nation grieves with them. David mourns Absaloms death despite his bloody treachery,Marxhausen later told The Washington Post just as the Klebolds mourned Dylan. As he preached, Marxhausen could see Dylan, laid out before him in an open coffin. I called John Horan of Horan & McConaty Funeral Service, Denver, Colorado, and together we made funeral arrangements for Dylan Klebold. "The parents should have been aware of it," Jefferson County Sheriff John P. Stone declared at a news briefing. I smoothed Dylan's hair and kissed his forehead, searching his face for clues and finding none. His mother on the other hand wondered how he could be anti-Semitic, as he was half Jewish and she being full. Review. In youth-group meetings, kids mourned that they could not be in heaven with her, says Craig Nason, who was a friend of Cassie's and is now the West Bowles young-adult pastor. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. For more information, please see our Since existence has known, the 'fight' between good & evil has continued. So to have the entire credibility of it washed away, that hurt.". After all, agrave is a site for mourning, a place to pay ones respects. Dylan recited the Four Questions at a Passover seder recently held at his family home, yet he was buried in a Lutheran service on Saturday. DENVER Dylan Klebold, one of two suspects in last week's bloodbath at Columbine High School, led a life of contradictions. On Saturday, the Denver Rocky Mountain News carried an interview with her hairdresser, Dee Grantz, who said that Susan had spoken to her about her shock at her sons deed. Flowers & tokens lad at makeshift memorial in remembrance of 13 victims killed by troubled seniors Dylan Klebold & Eric Harris who went on shooting. Yet the Rev. Please email us at [emailprotected], subject line republish, with any questions or to let us know what stories youre picking up. With millions of names, it's an invaluable tool for genealogists and history buffs. He is buried in an unmarked grave in Virginia. 'I was exposed to all the horrible things people believed to be true about us,' she said. . When your 17-year-old son has just perpetrated what was then the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, killing 12 students and one teacher and wounding 24 others before he and classmate Eric. Eric was the stronger personality, student Dan Holsey told the Denver Post. [more about funeral], Dylan B Klebold at Archives.com. Funeral director Peter Stefan, who agreed to prepare Tsarnaevs burial, said he received angry calls and mail from people who thought it un-American to handle funeral services for a killer. ", "Our sadness and grief over his death and this tragedy are indescribable," the statement said, and the Klebolds again apologized "to all those who have also suffered a loss of their loved one, and we continue to pray for the recovery of those who were injured. Image by Courtesy of the Klebold Family. . Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. So much of what was reported about Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold right after their April 20, 1999 attack on Columbine High School was wrong. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Dylan Bennet Klebold I found on Findagrave.com. While hundreds of mourners crowded today's televised funeral for 17-year-old Rachel Scott, a victim of the attack, Klebold's low-key service at a mortuary 20 miles northeast of Littleton was. They didnt do this, their son did. contrasting symbol, because it is so true & means so much the battle between good & bad never ends Here we ponder on the tragedy of Dylan Klebold. When he came back in September, "it was clear this wasn't my church anymore," he says. Susan Klebold grew up in Ohio with a Jewish father and a Christian mother. Although she has battled for decades to gain a greater understanding over her son's actions, Ms Klebold she is now in a place where she is 'happy'. Please reset your password. "This is Cassie's graduation day," he began. 'I remember thinking everything was good,' she said. Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and a teacher. For those who attended the service, it was as if Dylans life had ended at age 12, not five years later in a murderous rampage that left 12 students, a teacher, and the two killers dead, and a nation grieving and groping for answers. Hundreds and hundreds of people turned out to say farewell to each of the Columbine victims. "I wished for my son to kill himself, and he did," Susan Klebold said. They favored dark clothing, as did others in their loose and relatively tiny clique, the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia. There was an assumption from the tragedy that Dylan had not been taught right from wrong, she told me recently in a phone interview. "That's where I think I started getting in trouble with my church," says Marxhausen. "She said yes with her life. . Ultimately, [his parents] were also victims, he said. Don Marxhausen, has told Denver area reporters that he has been consoling the Klebolds since last weeks tragedy. He admired Hitler, yet his great-great grandfather was a respected Jewish philanthropist in Ohio. Because I know that suffering is going on and I feel somehow it's unjust to be happy. 1981, DENVER Dylan Klebold, one of two suspects in last weeks bloodbath at Columbine High School, led a life of contradictions. To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. After his mother retrieved him and drove him home, she stopped him as he ran upstairs, and then sat him down on the steps. Marxhausen and Kirsten (and their colleagues) were engaged in spiritual triage, tending to hundreds of traumatized families. Yet the Rev. While the myth that they had been bullied and ostracized by the proverbial jocks and popular kids quickly filled the airwaves, that was an entirely unfounded narrative. He was one of the teens behind the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999. Anyone from any background can have mental issues, she said. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. Pregnant Princess Beatrice dresses her bump in a 340 Self Portrait frock as she joins husband Edo and aunt Sophie Wessex at Wimbledon in first official outing since announcing she's expecting, Off to the races! 'For the first time I got it,' Sue said. His mother considered herself Jewish, yet the family belonged to a Lutheran church. Cookie Notice Every Memorial Website celebrates the legacy of a life. Twitter @brittalokting. Death date: 20 April, 1999, Tuesday. Would I do a funeral for his son? But after the shooting, she changed her mind. After Dylan's funeral, he described the killer's parents as "the loneliest people on the planet" to The Denver Post. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. The slain innocents, appropriately, are interred with honor, tears and candlelight ceremonies. I was very unstructured about it, she said of religion. If Dylan had any hatred, he never told me or anyone I knew.. For a half-century barely anyone knew that Booth was buried there,which likely didnt do much to tamp down the century and a half of speculation that Booth was never really captured. At the end of our conversation, Klebold acknowledged ones upbringing as irrelevant to these tragedies and denounced the idea that religion played any role. i have always wondered that as well considering that dylan had atleast a very small family gathering for a funeral.maybe erics parents possibly did have some sort of private funeral or memorial service for family that wanted to attend.if so,they probably made it private for obvious reasons.this is just speculation though.even though he did a How do you preside over the funeral of a 17-year-old boy who went to school one Tuesday morning and, with his good buddy Eric Harris, massacred 13 people just for fun? Friends and family pass by Columbine High School student Isaiah Shoels' open casket before his funeral in Denver, Thursday, April 29, 1999. His long, skinny body fit awkwardly into the cardboard casket where it would lie until cremation. My fav. Who wants to begin?. Columbine would open the floodgates of Kirsten's memory. 'Because you think, "how can I possibly feel happy when this terrible thing has happened? Marxhausen probably speaks for both men when he says the toll Columbine has taken on his life is incalculable. He and his friend Eric Harris . On April 20, 1999, I watched the television in disbelief as the tragic events unfolded at Columbine High School. memorial page for Dylan Bennet Klebold (11 Sep 1981-20 Apr 1999), Find a Grave Memorial ID 10972; Cremated, Ashes given to family or . 'But at this stage in my life, I guess I would say, yes, I am. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. Try again later. The clean-cut, grieving classmates of the fallen tried to make sense of what was senseless. One toted a sign that read, Do not bury him on U.S. soil. A driver passing by shouted, Throw him off a boat like Osama bin Laden.. Tell them about these good people., Pastor Donald Marxhausen One family jumped in and talked about how much they loved Dylan. -- b. He was misguided and all of that. In the days after Dylan Klebold along with Eric Harris shot and killed 12 students and one teacher and then himself at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, his mother, Sue Klebold, remembered a kind of religious warfare in the community of Littleton, Colorado. Klebold says that she used to believe God was watching over her family. Dylan Bennett Klebold. Hell also lose his Lamborghini, Motorcyclist launched from bike when his girlfriend hits him with truck, Florida cops say, A man went in for kidney removal. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? Similarly, Marxhausen said, the Klebolds are right to grieve their son's death, despite the momentous tragedy he helped cause. "Tom Klebold told me he thought he had a good finished product." ___Their son, Dylan Klebold, 17, would have graduated from Columbine High School this spring and was planning to attend the University of Arizona in the fall. But I never thought it would hurt that much. But they wanted some kind of service for their son,sothey phoned Don Marxhausen, a liberal-minded Lutheran pastor from their town. "Franklin Graham was beating me up through my TV," he says. At one point in the book, he objects, out of embarrassment, to reciting the four questions at a Seder. Tombstonesare left unmarkedby the names inextricably linked to violence. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. A dead person must be buried.. "What I remember most is this tremendous barrage of very hurting people," he says. Columbine High School. Sue contacted me to ask for my help in arranging the cremation and private memorial service for her son. Long-time friends arrived; one couple was from my church. And so when a desperate Tom Klebold phoned, the pastora liberal-minded Lutheranagreed to arrange a private service. Klebold's body was cremated and his family held a small memorial service. The expression on Dylan's face was unfamiliar, which Byron later confessed made it easier for him. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Denver area Jews, meanwhile, have expressed discomfort at the emphasis being paid to Klebolds alleged Jewishness. Sorry! And I can feel her love for him. Until recently, Sue was on the Mortuary Science Program Advisory Committee and made certain that the program functioned under the guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act. April 20, 2019. Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people in San Bernardino in December 2015. I dont see anyone making a big deal about the fact that Harris was Catholic. Littleton,Colorado. The pastor of that church, Rev. Add to your scrapbook. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search. Can I pick and choose? AsTsarni cast about for a gravesite for his nephew, protesters thronged outside the funeral home where Tsarnaevs body was being held. My disbelief turned into sadness as I learned that John Tomlin, a boy from my church, Foothills Bible Church, died in the library that day. I personally have a hard time grieving the loss of Dylan Klebold, because it's hard to look past how vicious and sadistic he was. Reports of the Klebold familys Jewish ancestry first appeared last Friday in the Columbus Dispatch of Columbus, Ohio, where Dylan Klebolds maternal great-grandfather, the late Leo Yassenoff, was a Jewish community leader and philanthropist. "I turned it off. They feared that the graves would be desecrated, among other concerns. This is anunseen aftermath of terror attacks and mass shootings. Religion doesnt play a prominent role in the book, but when I spoke with Klebold, she touched on Columbine High Schools ignorance of Judaism, describing Columbine as upper middle class, Caucasian and Christian. It's going to take some very good shrinks to work this out for them.". By Monica Greep For Mailonline But I never thought it would hurt that much.. That unfamiliar expression was perhaps the only thing that allowed us to get through that first, horrific, unreal moment. Nothing made sense. Later that afternoon the mother discovered that her son was dead, and remembered 'groaning' with emotional pain out loud while watching the news. After the shootings, Klebold sought solace from the now retired rabbi Steven Foster at Temple Emanuel, in Denver. A buddy finally persuaded Kirsten to go to the VA hospital, where he was diagnosed as being 80 percent disabled with PTSD. No. Princess Anne dons a vibrant brocade coat and cobalt blue fascinator as she attends Ladies Day at Newmarket. . This has nothing to do with religion or the failure of religion., As for Klebolds Jewish forebears, the rabbi said simply, Im sure the grandfather and great-grandfather are twisting in their graves., Neo-Nazism contributed to Littleton massacre. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. While hundreds of mourners crowded today's televised funeral for 17-year-old Rachel Scott, a victim of the attack, Klebold's low-key service at a mortuary 20 miles northeast of Littleton was attended by his parents, his older brother and 10 others, Marxhausen said. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. 'What I remember doing was just wanting to crawl in that casket with him, he was so cold I just kept thinking, I've got to get him warm, I just wanted him to be warm. Except for issuing a statement last week expressing sorrow at their sons actions, the Klebolds have refused all media requests for comments or interviews. For months Sue was in denial about what her her son had done: 'They said the boys did all these terrible things. His death certificate lists his final resting place as the only entirely Muslim cemetery in South Florida. Marxhausen, now nearly 70, is a burly, plain-spoken man who arrived in Littleton in 1990, and built St. Philip Lutheran Church into a thriving, mainline congregation with more than 1,000 members. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. 'I had been grieving so much for this lost previous child and remembering who he was and that was the point I realised who he was to the rest of the world, everything died in my world, God died, my belief in truth in what my family was.'. Both were seniors at the Littleton high school, apparently members of a shadowy clique known as the Trenchcoat Mafia. On the way out I asked the lawyer how should I respond to the media. Eric Harris, along with Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 13 people and injured 20 at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Her son was Dylan Klebold, one of two studentswho killed 13 people in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado. The further Kirsten got from the tragedy, though, the more he began to crack. He was too late, however, to be useful as a mediator. Enjoy free access to the most up-to-date SSDI search for individuals with International Social Security numbers. In 1999, Klebold and Harris opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing . God was everywhere after Columbine. The two, both Columbine seniors, killed a dozen students and a teacher before taking their own lives. Marxhausen hated the whole thing. Harris family did not make his burial site public. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. Attention: Death verified by Social security index. Sysoon enables anyone to create a free online tribute for a much loved relative or friend who has passed away. Normally unflappable, Klebolds mother was disgusted by her sons blood-sucking treasures; Dylan loved it, the fun of grossing out Mom. There were fewer mourners than there might have been, Reutersreported many who knew the dead refused to attend. Marxhausens role later lost him his job, but he told the Associated Press in 2012 thathe didntregret it. 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