Campbell casket arrives for funeral service
  • 11 years ago
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STORY: The casket carrying the body of 29-year old Krystle Campbell, who was killed in Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon, arrives ahead of her funeral service.

She is one of three people killed in the attack which also injured 176 people.

Campbell's friends remembered her outsized personality, passion for the Boston Red Sox baseball team, and the way she belted out Eminem and Rihanna's "Love the Way You Lie" every time she heard it on the radio.

Michael McGlynn, mayor of Medford, Massachusetts, where Campbell grew up, said he confirmed her death with her father, William. "Mr. Campbell said that she certainly was a dream daughter, the daughter that every father dreams to have, and friends of hers said that she was eager about life," he said.

"She had a great sense of humor and freckles and red hair that brought her right to her Irish roots. She was someone who worked hard at everything she did."

"Another friend
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