Beloved friends Andy and his adored wife, Jamie Schliepsiek achieved a level of love in their marriage that many couples never share, her father told mourners Monday. "She fell for that young man right off the bat," Jim Bielenberg said. They completed each other, he said, and Andy fell for Jamie, too. The former Peoria couple was laid to rest following funeral services at First Federated Church, just two years after friends and family gathered there to watch them marry. The couple was killed July 5 at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, where they lived. Andy was a senior airman for the 54th Combat Communications Squadron, and planned to end his service in the Air Force later this month. Jamie lived on base with him. Both grew up in Peoria. At Monday's funeral, Bielenberg told the crowded church that he finds some comfort knowing the couple died together. He said Jamie would never have been the same if she had survived this tragedy alone because Andy was so much a part of her life. Andy and Jamie were opposites in many ways, he said. Jamie was somewhat reserved. At parties, she was never the center of attention but enjoyed most to be with her family and closest friends. Andy was charismatic, an excellent athlete and had a spark about him that friends and family, even strangers, gravitated toward, he said. Bielenberg held up Andy's wallet for those who had gathered to mourn the couple's death. The first thing you saw when it was opened was a picture of Jamie. He also had a postage stamp-size picture of the two of them, and he carried three letters in his wallet they had written one another. Jamie was always mindful of the greatest joys in life that others would often forget in the rush of the day. Bielenberg said his daughter would always volunteer to run errands with him, sometimes just to keep him company while walking the dog or driving to the station for gas. When she went to college, she called home four or five times a week. "She got it," he said. "She got it big time." If there were a resume of her life, it would read, "I kept this family together," he said. Andy shared many of the same values, his brothers said. He was hard working and cool under pressure. "Andy got the job done," brother Chad Schliepsiek said. Family always was more important than wealth and work. Chad said his brother would not want him to worry about the title before his name or money to buy a fancy house or cars. Instead, he would want him to be a loving husband, son, brother and friend. "I will try my best to make you proud," he said. His other brother, Jeremy Schliepsiek, said Andy was "not afraid to love." Andy wouldn't hesitate to tell the people closest to him what they meant to him. "He wasn't afraid to look me straight in the eye and say 'I love you,'" he said. "And he meant it. "He was there when he was alive for you, and he's going to be there in spirit." Jeremy Schliepsiek & Jodie Bielenberg, siblings of the victims have set up a community foundation of Southern ILL; it's the "Jamie and Andy Schliepsiek Fund". We basically set it up not only as a monetary support so we decide to put together a scholarship fund to last forever." To send money to the Schliepsiek Foundation mail your donation to: The Community Foundation of IL. 331 Fulton St. Peoria, IL, 61602. The individual responsible for Andy and his wife's murder now sits on death row at United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.