Chicago Tribune (IL) - June 16, 1985
Deceased Name: SLAIN WHEATON TEENAGERS EULOGIZED: 'GOD'S HEART BROKE WHEN THESE 2 DIED'
Two teenagers from Wheaton who ran off nearly two weeks ago to get married were buried Saturday in side-by-side cemetery plots adjoining a junior high schoolyard where they once played.
The bodies of Amy Boyle, 15, and Larry Brock, 16, sophomores at Wheaton Central High School, were returned home late Friday.
The couple had been found shot to death last Monday in a remote mountain area in southwestern Colorado. A third Wheaton youth, who joined them on their cross-country adventure, is being held by authorities in Colorado in connection with the shootings.
The plots in Wheaton Cemetery where the bodies where laid to rest Saturday overlook the ball diamond at Edison Middle School where Larry played baseball. Though Larry and Amy attended the same junior high school, they did not begin dating until last year.
As mourners left the grave sites to return to their vehicles, Peggy Boyle, Amy's mother, looked over her should for one last glance at her daughter's casket. Amy's father, Donald, returned to the casket and plucked a red rose to take with him.
Earlier in the day, at a 45-minute funeral service attended by about 200 friends and family members, three ministers eulogized the young couple.
''Their lives were not a waste,'' said Rev. Duane Mevis, associate pastor of Wesley Mehtodist Church in Naperville. ''They experienced love with their families and with each other.
''I don't believe an act like this is God's will. I believe God's heart broke when these two died.''
As Rev. Mevis recited a portion of the Gospel of John, Mrs. Boyle mouthed the words. At another point in the service, she left her seat and knelt before her dauther's open casket.
Many of the couple's young friends wept during the service. Larry's mother, Janice Sue, sat bent forward with her face down. His father, Lawrence, stared blankly at the floor.
Larry was the Brocks' only child.
Rev. Ira Davidson, Larry's great-uncle and asociate pastor of Kedvale Baptist Church in Chicago, warned that ''Satan is killing so many of our young people today. We have evidence right here.''
Rev. Jack Carmichal, a Church of God pastor from Harlan, Ky., where the Boyles once lived, said Amy and Larry had been ''an inspiration to friends in school and the community.'
Deceased Name: SLAIN WHEATON TEENAGERS EULOGIZED: 'GOD'S HEART BROKE WHEN THESE 2 DIED'
Two teenagers from Wheaton who ran off nearly two weeks ago to get married were buried Saturday in side-by-side cemetery plots adjoining a junior high schoolyard where they once played.
The bodies of Amy Boyle, 15, and Larry Brock, 16, sophomores at Wheaton Central High School, were returned home late Friday.
The couple had been found shot to death last Monday in a remote mountain area in southwestern Colorado. A third Wheaton youth, who joined them on their cross-country adventure, is being held by authorities in Colorado in connection with the shootings.
The plots in Wheaton Cemetery where the bodies where laid to rest Saturday overlook the ball diamond at Edison Middle School where Larry played baseball. Though Larry and Amy attended the same junior high school, they did not begin dating until last year.
As mourners left the grave sites to return to their vehicles, Peggy Boyle, Amy's mother, looked over her should for one last glance at her daughter's casket. Amy's father, Donald, returned to the casket and plucked a red rose to take with him.
Earlier in the day, at a 45-minute funeral service attended by about 200 friends and family members, three ministers eulogized the young couple.
''Their lives were not a waste,'' said Rev. Duane Mevis, associate pastor of Wesley Mehtodist Church in Naperville. ''They experienced love with their families and with each other.
''I don't believe an act like this is God's will. I believe God's heart broke when these two died.''
As Rev. Mevis recited a portion of the Gospel of John, Mrs. Boyle mouthed the words. At another point in the service, she left her seat and knelt before her dauther's open casket.
Many of the couple's young friends wept during the service. Larry's mother, Janice Sue, sat bent forward with her face down. His father, Lawrence, stared blankly at the floor.
Larry was the Brocks' only child.
Rev. Ira Davidson, Larry's great-uncle and asociate pastor of Kedvale Baptist Church in Chicago, warned that ''Satan is killing so many of our young people today. We have evidence right here.''
Rev. Jack Carmichal, a Church of God pastor from Harlan, Ky., where the Boyles once lived, said Amy and Larry had been ''an inspiration to friends in school and the community.'
Chicago Tribune (IL) - June 16, 1985
Deceased Name: SLAIN WHEATON TEENAGERS EULOGIZED: 'GOD'S HEART BROKE WHEN THESE 2 DIED'
Two teenagers from Wheaton who ran off nearly two weeks ago to get married were buried Saturday in side-by-side cemetery plots adjoining a junior high schoolyard where they once played.
The bodies of Amy Boyle, 15, and Larry Brock, 16, sophomores at Wheaton Central High School, were returned home late Friday.
The couple had been found shot to death last Monday in a remote mountain area in southwestern Colorado. A third Wheaton youth, who joined them on their cross-country adventure, is being held by authorities in Colorado in connection with the shootings.
The plots in Wheaton Cemetery where the bodies where laid to rest Saturday overlook the ball diamond at Edison Middle School where Larry played baseball. Though Larry and Amy attended the same junior high school, they did not begin dating until last year.
As mourners left the grave sites to return to their vehicles, Peggy Boyle, Amy's mother, looked over her should for one last glance at her daughter's casket. Amy's father, Donald, returned to the casket and plucked a red rose to take with him.
Earlier in the day, at a 45-minute funeral service attended by about 200 friends and family members, three ministers eulogized the young couple.
''Their lives were not a waste,'' said Rev. Duane Mevis, associate pastor of Wesley Mehtodist Church in Naperville. ''They experienced love with their families and with each other.
''I don't believe an act like this is God's will. I believe God's heart broke when these two died.''
As Rev. Mevis recited a portion of the Gospel of John, Mrs. Boyle mouthed the words. At another point in the service, she left her seat and knelt before her dauther's open casket.
Many of the couple's young friends wept during the service. Larry's mother, Janice Sue, sat bent forward with her face down. His father, Lawrence, stared blankly at the floor.
Larry was the Brocks' only child.
Rev. Ira Davidson, Larry's great-uncle and asociate pastor of Kedvale Baptist Church in Chicago, warned that ''Satan is killing so many of our young people today. We have evidence right here.''
Rev. Jack Carmichal, a Church of God pastor from Harlan, Ky., where the Boyles once lived, said Amy and Larry had been ''an inspiration to friends in school and the community.'
Deceased Name: SLAIN WHEATON TEENAGERS EULOGIZED: 'GOD'S HEART BROKE WHEN THESE 2 DIED'
Two teenagers from Wheaton who ran off nearly two weeks ago to get married were buried Saturday in side-by-side cemetery plots adjoining a junior high schoolyard where they once played.
The bodies of Amy Boyle, 15, and Larry Brock, 16, sophomores at Wheaton Central High School, were returned home late Friday.
The couple had been found shot to death last Monday in a remote mountain area in southwestern Colorado. A third Wheaton youth, who joined them on their cross-country adventure, is being held by authorities in Colorado in connection with the shootings.
The plots in Wheaton Cemetery where the bodies where laid to rest Saturday overlook the ball diamond at Edison Middle School where Larry played baseball. Though Larry and Amy attended the same junior high school, they did not begin dating until last year.
As mourners left the grave sites to return to their vehicles, Peggy Boyle, Amy's mother, looked over her should for one last glance at her daughter's casket. Amy's father, Donald, returned to the casket and plucked a red rose to take with him.
Earlier in the day, at a 45-minute funeral service attended by about 200 friends and family members, three ministers eulogized the young couple.
''Their lives were not a waste,'' said Rev. Duane Mevis, associate pastor of Wesley Mehtodist Church in Naperville. ''They experienced love with their families and with each other.
''I don't believe an act like this is God's will. I believe God's heart broke when these two died.''
As Rev. Mevis recited a portion of the Gospel of John, Mrs. Boyle mouthed the words. At another point in the service, she left her seat and knelt before her dauther's open casket.
Many of the couple's young friends wept during the service. Larry's mother, Janice Sue, sat bent forward with her face down. His father, Lawrence, stared blankly at the floor.
Larry was the Brocks' only child.
Rev. Ira Davidson, Larry's great-uncle and asociate pastor of Kedvale Baptist Church in Chicago, warned that ''Satan is killing so many of our young people today. We have evidence right here.''
Rev. Jack Carmichal, a Church of God pastor from Harlan, Ky., where the Boyles once lived, said Amy and Larry had been ''an inspiration to friends in school and the community.'
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