WOW jackie-evancho 20424 views T10:05:55 source: Jackie Evancho Jackie Evancho never fails to bring the chills with her powerful opera voice. The eulogy concluded with the mourners, many of them crying, singing ″God Bless America.″ The song was also played as Miss Smith’s casket was carried out of the cathedral. And when you hear her sing 'God Bless America' for our country, you'll be in awe. ″Her life was a life of service to others. He said she had a good sense of humor and never complained despite her health problems, which included severe diabetes and cancer. In a brief eulogy, Salmon said Miss Smith was ″Kate to the world″ but liked to be called Kathryn by close friends.
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Matthew’s Cathedral Saturday to honor the memory of the woman once described as a living Statue of Liberty.Ī phalanx of Knights of Columbus members in red satin sashes and plumed hats escorted the singer’s flag-draped coffin up a red carpet under the cathderal dome as sun filtered through stained glass windows and an organist played Bach and hymns. Old friends and some relatives crowded into the gilded, ornate St. Miss Smith grew up two blocks from the Capitol and attended elementary school, business school and nursing school in Washington. But he said that suffering is behind her and she can ″ask God face-to-face to bless us and bless our country.″ She will be buried this week in Lake Placid, N.Y., at Camp Sunshine, which she once owned.īishop Eugene Lyons, auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Washington, said Miss Smith had suffered from many diseases. Miss Smith, a radio personality and patriotic symbol famed for her powerful rendition of ″God Bless America,″ died Tuesday at 79.Ī funeral mass for Miss Smith was conducted Thursday in Raleigh, N.C., where she had moved seven years ago to be near her sister. It has simply gone on to join the heavenly choir,″ said the Rev. WASHINGTON (AP) _ The priest who baptized Kate Smith 22 years ago officiated at a funeral mass Saturday for the singer, praising her ″life of service″ and leading the congregation in singing ″God Bless America.″
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