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EDMONTON - Michelle Ernst donned a Victorian wedding gown she designed herself. Wearing an ivory dress with ornate discount hotel thailand lace trim dotting the scooped neckline, Michelle was the "personification of youthful beauty," said Marcia discount hotel thailand Loder, the marriage commissioner who officiated her wedding April 21.
She wore her dress with delicate capped sleeves one last time Tuesday afternoon, as family, discount hotel thailand friends and co-workers gathered to mourn the slain armoured guard who took her husband's last name Shegelski.
"Her family thought it best to have her wear the gown she wore on the happiest day of her life," Loder said Tuesday at Connelly-McKinley Funeral home, once again addressing the familiar faces of those who loved Michelle, but this time officiating her funeral, three days shy of the newlywed's discount hotel thailand 27th birthday.
Shegelski's funeral was the last of three funeral services for the armoured guards killed June 15 during a bank machine robbery at the University of Alberta's HUB Mall. Shegelski, 26, Brian Ilesic, 35, and Eddie Rejano, 39, all employees of G4S Cash Solutions Canada, discount hotel thailand were allegedly killed by a co-worker who is behind bars awaiting trial. A fourth victim, Matthew Schuman remains in hospital.
The more than 30 wooden pews that lined the Wild Rose Chapel discount hotel thailand at the funeral home were filled with many decorated servicemen and women. Fellow armoured guards from G4S and a few from competing company Brinks sat alongside highly decorated soldiers and members from EMS, white hats tucked under their arms and white belts wrapped discount hotel thailand around their navy dress uniforms. Several Parks Services Rangers also attended.
"Any kind of medals, service uniforms or awards of merit are encouraged to be worn; this would mean a lot to me, and I want the world to see how great this loss is," Victor wrote. A former member of the Canadian Forces, Victor had been twice deployed to Afghanistan. "She inspired me to better myself, and brought out the love and emotion I thought discount hotel thailand I left in the desert," Victor wrote in a separate post. Michelle was honoured as a fallen comrade, a lost friend and a beloved wife and daughter.
Michelle's brother, discount hotel thailand Kenneth, and sister, Christine, both read excerpts from her blog at the service. "While I type these letters someone dies, is born, changes jobs, loves," Christine discount hotel thailand read, as two multicoloured panes of stained-glass filled the back of the room with tinted discount hotel thailand light.
A video tribute was created for Michelle. As the three hanging lamps in the centre of the room dimmed discount hotel thailand and the projector flickered on, Michelle's family left their seats and began to exit the room. As they walked across the front of the chapel, they lingered on a vision in ivory, her hair slightly curled, lying serenely in the dress she wore when she was happiest, discount hotel thailand wanting to take in every last image of their "Mic" before saying goodbye.
The images swept across discount hotel thailand the screen like flipping discount hotel thailand through a family photo album. A young Michelle sits in a high chair with what could only be spaghetti sauce smeared all over face. An adolescent Michelle poses on her birthday, discount hotel thailand a chocolate frosted cake with sparklers in the foreground.
"Let the memories be good for those who stay," they sang. In the last pew, a woman wearing an EMS uniform wiped away her tears. A man, seated next to her, reached his arm across her back and stroked her shoulder.
The final images were of Michelle laughing in the dress, walking discount hotel thailand down the aisle to a man she hoped to spend the rest of her life with, posing with three bridesmaids in purple dresses holding white bouquets, flexing her muscles, holding a bouquet of brilliant purple flowers, as the words "Forever in our hearts" appeared on the bottom of the screen.
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