I said, Lets just sit and talk for a while. Please try again later. She discusses her own humanity as well by outlining her blindness to her sons depression and unhappiness, and to his plan to kill. There is a July 1999 article in a magazine called "The Director which is a publication for professionals in the mortuary biz. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds to their heads in the library a little after noon. Funeral industry and Genealogy directory. Despite his son's murderous behavior and treachery, David mourns his death. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. But the public's only glimpse into their psyches has been through the blurry lens of their schoolmates whose perceptions of the two varied widely. We were formal with each other, but he was grateful for my presence. Marxhausen hated the whole thing. I dont see anyone making a big deal about the fact that Harris was Catholic. Don Marxhausen believed that Dylan's parents deserved to hear the message of God's grace. 'I was exposed to all the horrible things people believed to be true about us,' she said. There was his mother Susans favorite story: One afternoon, Dylan, age 10, came running back from the creek with a pile of leeches. At the same time, the father must have believed that his sons future was still bright. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. His long, skinny body fit awkwardly into the cardboard casket where it would lie until cremation. On the Sunday between Dylan's funeral and Cassie's, 70,000 mourners gathered in a parking lot to listen to Franklin Graham, among others, proclaim the gospel. Both were seniors at the Littleton high school, apparently members of a shadowy clique known as the Trenchcoat Mafia. To use this feature, use a newer browser. Attention: Death verified by Social security index. I personally have a hard time grieving the loss of Dylan Klebold, because it's hard to look past how vicious and sadistic he was. Copyright 1999 Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? My fav. The mother of one of the Columbine school shooters admitted she 'prayed her son would die' when she learned of the massacre. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. He also shot his mother before he carried out the school rampage. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. His father was very enraged that day, asking who would give his son a gun. 'They had got so much information wrong about Dylan and our family, that I settled into the belief system that they were wrong about what Dylan did.'. What happened? Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? Try again. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. With millions of names, it's an invaluable tool for genealogists and history buffs. Police said the parents of both teenagers "are being interviewed" in detail by investigators. She told me she remembered Foster suffering a backlash after saying Kaddish for her son, but Foster doesnt remember that. Consider uploading your photo of Dylan B Klebold so that your pictures are included in Dylan B Klebold's genealogy, family trees & family history records. O Absalom my son, my son! Until recently, Sue was on the Mortuary Science Program Advisory Committee and made certain that the program functioned under the guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I think school shootings bring up good and evil, and people turn to religion because its the ultimate disruption of a moral code, said Solomon. I thought, Dylan would not say anything like that. When you're in it and so impacted by it, you just don't think about the effect it's having on you." There was an error deleting this problem. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Review. Today, West Bowles is a soaring modern building facing the Rocky Mountains where ministers preach a fundamentalist Christianity. The problem of what to do with the body can be particularly acute when the perpetrator is Muslim, because Islam prohibits cremation. Toms sister and brother-in-law were the only other family members. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. At the memorial service, Marxhausen said, he told the Old Testament story of Absalom, the rebel son of King David, who takes part in a rebellion against his father and is killed. In 1999, however, Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold became the nation's first poster boys for the phenomenon and the first to be widely misunderstood. The story of Cassie's martyrdom instantly became legend at West Bowles. Cookie Notice Harris's father, Wayne, 50, is a retired Air Force pilot who works in aviation safety as a civilian, and his mother, Kathy, 49, runs a catering business. A memorial service for Dylan B Klebold. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. But authorities also fear that graves could become a place of worship for those who supported the individuals actions. But I never thought it would hurt that much.. Like McVeighs, the gravesiteof Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon bomber who diedduring a shootout with police shortly after the attack in 2013, was contested. When he came back in September, "it was clear this wasn't my church anymore," he says. This browser does not support getting your location. Can I separate the sins from the sinners? For those who attended the service, it was as if Dylans life had ended at age 12, not five years later in a murderous rampage that left 12 students, a teacher, and the two killers dead, and a nation grieving and groping for answers. Marxhausen, now nearly 70, is a burly, plain-spoken man who arrived in Littleton in 1990, and built St. Philip Lutheran Church into a thriving, mainline congregation with more than 1,000 members. "Cassie Bernall deserved to have a book written about her, but if there was reason to believe that it wasn't truthful, then it's a disservice to her memory and to the community. It's going to take some very good shrinks to work this out for them.". She also used the words toxic and judgmental. She said she doesnt know a single Jewish person in town, and one December, when she tried to buy Hanukkah candles at the grocery store, the clerks looked at her blankly. His mother considered herself Jewish, yet the family belonged to a Lutheran church. Dylan was in an open coffin, with beanie babies lining his head (this helped to cover trauma caused by the gunshot wound). This memorial website was created in memory of Dylan B Klebold, 17, born on September 11, 1981 and passed away on April 20, 1999. Nothing made sense. Sorry! They are picturedexamine a sawed-off shotgun at a makeshift shooting range the year of the shooting, Following the shooting, Sue says their entire community was 'in chaos', and that their local governor went on television to hold the parents responsible, which started 'open season on their family', Sue believed her son was in a good place, happy that her he was employed, doing extracurricular activities and set to go to a university of his choice, Despite being tormented by guilt, Sue says she is finally in a better place, and has 'plenty to be thankful for', 17:21 09 Jul 2021, updated 00:59 10 Jul 2021, Queen of the cobbles! Sysoon enables anyone to create a free online tribute for a much loved relative or friend who has passed away. Id do the same thing tomorrow, even if people get angry. In the days after Dylan Klebold along with Eric Harris shot and killed 12 students and one teacher and then himself at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, his mother, Sue Klebold, remembered . After meeting several times with the couple since Tuesday's shooting-and-bombing rampage at the school, Marxhausen tonight described the Klebolds as being at a loss to explain what drove their son, 17, and his friend Eric Harris, 18, to carry out the attack. What kind of a horrible person am I to feel joy?" She appeared onBBC Four documentary Raising a School Shooter where she broke down while remembering his funeral, The 72-year-old said broke don in floods of tears as she revealed that her son was laid to rest in a cardboard box, and that she was terrified to leave the premise in case someone 'hurt him' or stole his body, Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire at their suburban Denver school, killing 13 people and injuring a further 24 in the attack, For months Sue was in denial about what her her son had done and police had to show footage of her son andHarris openly speaking about the attack. Since existence has known, the 'fight' between good & evil has continued. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. In her newly released book, A Mothers Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, she writes about trying to instill a moral code in her son. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 'I remember thinking everything was good,' she said. Klebold said she didnt find it odd that her son wore a floor-length leather jacket, as she herself had tried to be different by wearing cowboy boots and moccasins when she attended private school from first to 12th grade. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. As she grew older, her ties to Judaism disintegrated. By Monica Greep For Mailonline His mother on the other hand wondered how he could be anti-Semitic, as he was half Jewish and she being full. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. contrasting symbol, because it is so true & means so much the battle between good & bad never ends Here we ponder on the tragedy of Dylan Klebold. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. It took the mother six months to fully acknowledge the extent of her son's crimes, with police having to show Sue evidence that proved the massacre was premeditated. "She Said Yes" became an instant bestseller. Kirsten takes comfort in riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle on mountain highways, and still goes to the VA hospital weekly for therapy. He was too late, however, to be useful as a mediator. ", The two couples, declining to speak publicly, have issued statements expressing sorrow for the school attack and asking to be left alone by reporters. This article was published more than7 years ago. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. ", Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. After Columbine, local evangelicalswho said the shootings were the devil's work and who used the tragedy as an opportunity to bring people to Jesusinfuriated him. Sysoon is a free resource for finding the final resting places of famous folks, friends and family members and contains listings for thousands of celebrity graves, making it the premier online destination for tombstone tourists. Dylan Klebold and Ryan Harris killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. He is reportedly buried in Virginia but no further details are known. Now theres even more undeniable proof that he was cremated. They favored dark clothing, as did others in their loose and relatively tiny clique, the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia. There was an assumption from the tragedy that Dylan had not been taught right from wrong, she told me recently in a phone interview. When there is a funeral for the perpetrator, it is private, James Fox, a mass shooting expert and professor of criminology at Northeastern University, told ABC News in 2012. Rather than bury theirDylansremains, the Klebolds had him cremated a grave that doesnt exist cant offend. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? As he preached, Marxhausen could see Dylan, laid out before him in an open coffin. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Dylan Klebold was a child of upper-middle-class parents, considered gifted in grammar school. Share Your Memories and Sympathies and Join the Bereaved! They were at a cemetery far from the couples home near San Bernardino, Calif., an attendee told Reuters, because a closer graveyard refused to accept the bodies. Because I know that suffering is going on and I feel somehow it's unjust to be happy. The governor of Colorado cited parenting as a causal factor in his first public appearance after the shootings. According to Muslim tradition, remains cannot be cremated. So to have the entire credibility of it washed away, that hurt.". He was misguided and all of that. Try again later. ", "Instead of 'Absalom,'" Marxhausen said, "I substituted 'Dylan.'". But I am sorry for Sue. LITTLETON, Colo., April 24 The parents of Dylan Klebold, one of the teenage shooters in the Columbine High School massacre, said goodbye to their dead son today at a private memorial service, joined by 11 other mourners and a minister who later described the Klebold family as being "in terrible shape.". 'Not only killed and hurt people, but that they would say awful racist things and sadistic things and I just shut that out of my mind. Religion doesnt play a prominent role in the book, but when I spoke with Klebold, she touched on Columbine High Schools ignorance of Judaism, describing Columbine as upper middle class, Caucasian and Christian. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. Marxhausen described them as "very good people, fine people" who have been shocked by the disclosures. But journals found by police told a differentstory, and Sue was devastated and shocked after discovering the mental anguish her son was in - with passages describing the mental 'agony' he was in and detailing his forms of self-harm. 'They were saying 25 people were dead and I remember thinking at one point, if Dylan is really hurting people the way they're saying he is - I prayed that he would die.'. How do you preside over the funeral of a 17-year-old boy who went to school one Tuesday morning and, with his good buddy Eric Harris, massacred 13 people just for fun? "God, who knows about suffering and pain and loss, wants to reach out to you," he told the grieving parents, according to news accounts. Andwho mourns a murderer? Many people choose to share their Memorial Websites in Sysoons Featured Memorial Website Program. The clean-cut, grieving classmates of the fallen tried to make sense of what was senseless. Recalling the day her son was buried, Ms Klebold said he was laid to rest in a cardboard box, and broke down into floods of tears as she said she wanted to 'crawl in that casket with him' and was desperate to understand what drove her son to commit such an atrocious crime. But Tom [her now ex-husband] and I knew exactly what had happened in our home all those years we parented Dylan, and we were equally sure the answer wasnt there, she wrote in the book. His mother considered herself Jewish, yet the family belonged to a Lutheran church. Marxhausen probably speaks for both men when he says the toll Columbine has taken on his life is incalculable. "She said yes with her life. Image by Courtesy of the Klebold Family. Share. Pin. Depending on the calendar, the family fused Passover and Easter into one dinner. U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-Current. She came into my arms and sobbed and shook. Susan Klebold, former director of disability services at Arapahoe Community College, also works as assistant director of Access to Employment Projects for the Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System in Denver. I was not aware that a change in behavior might be indicative of a mental health issue getting started, she said. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. We are currently preparing a system for publishing answers. If Dylan had any hatred, he never told me or anyone I knew.. She attended a Reform Jewish synagogue and went to church with her grandmother. 'He was just there in a cardboard box and they allowed us each to have a few minutes with him,' said Sue. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Finally it was time to do liturgy, read scripture, offer prayers and give a brief sermon about parents love, which is as faithful as Gods love. As a mother, she sometimes recited the Ten Commandments as a moral code, and at other times, she recited, Now I lay me down to sleep before bedtime, along with other prayers. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Tsarnaevs wife refused to claim his body, and his parents would not return to the United States to arrange his funeral. Dylan Bennet Klebold. Dylan lived here with his parents Tom, a former geophysicist who ran a mortgage business from his home and fixed and rented out homes, and Susan, who worked for the state of Colorado . The notion that she hadnt raised her son to be a moral human became a prevalent theory that followed her for years. Letizia of Spain looks chic in an all-white ensemble - and matching face mask - as she joins husband King Felipe VI at Madrid art fair, Bea's blooming! View the latest documents, pictures, photos and images of or upload the files of your loved one. April 20, 2019. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search. This is anunseen aftermath of terror attacks and mass shootings. You do your job, he said. Im Jewish., Similarly, Susan Klebolds cousin, Skip Yassenoff, indicated to the Denver Post last week that Dylan Klebolds act must have been very difficult for [Susan], for any average American parent but particularly for someone brought up Jewish.. Copyright 2023 The Forward Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Signals about the familys religious practice grew even more mixed when it was reported that Dylan Klebold was buried Saturday in a Lutheran funeral. After all, agrave is a site for mourning, a place to pay ones respects. Klebold and Harris were social outcasts in the halls of Columbine, but so are a lot of students in a lot of schools. Tell them about these good people., Pastor Donald Marxhausen This memorial website was created in memory of Dylan B Klebold, 17, born on September11, 1981 and passed away on April20, 1999. It was to be a private, secret affair, with a few trusted friends. They didnt do this, their son did. At one point in the book, when, during his high school years, he forgets Mothers Day, Klebold snaps with frustration and shoves him against the fridge. It profiles Sue Klebold, Dylan Klebold's mother, and examines what lessons Americans should take away from the tragedy. [It] made me realize that none of us have any control over anything, really, she said. This was emphasized both by the congregations former spiritual leader, Rabbi Judith Beiner, now of Overland Park, Kan., and its current president, Daniel Rothschild, in comments to the Intermountain Jewish News. Families dont want the attention because theyre oftenblamed for their relatives crimes, and they leave their relatives graves unmarked because the family is afraid the grave will be defaced.. She still lost her baby. The images of the funerals below were taken with the knowledge of the families of the victims and are . This story was originally published June 23, 2016, 6:57 PM. Dylan lay in the casket surrounded with Beanie Babies. Below you will find photos of the victims's funerals and gravesites. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. At the end of our conversation, Klebold acknowledged ones upbringing as irrelevant to these tragedies and denounced the idea that religion played any role. Of course I wish these horrible things never happened, but certainly I'm grateful I've reached a place where life is okay and there's plenty to be thankful for. While every other mother in Littleton was praying that her child was safe, SusanKleboldtold author Andrew Solomon for his book Far From the Tree. I had to pray that mine would die before he hurt anyone else.. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the gunman, had been bullied for several years prior to the massacre. 'I had been grieving so much for this lost previous child and remembering who he was and that was the point I realised who he was to the rest of the world, everything died in my world, God died, my belief in truth in what my family was.'. There's where you screwed up!' The funeral home and chapel where Dylan Klebolds private viewing took place in Denver,Colorado. My disbelief turned into sadness as I learned that John Tomlin, a boy from my church, Foothills Bible Church, died in the library that day. Death date: 20 April, 1999, Tuesday. In the days after Dylan Klebold along with Eric Harris shot and killed 12 students and one teacher and then himself at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, his mother, Sue Klebold, remembered a kind of religious warfare in the community of Littleton, Colorado. The two, both Columbine seniors, killed a dozen students and a teacher before taking their own lives. Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site. Another girl, sitting under another library table, had said she believed in God when prompted by Klebold, who let her live, according to Dave Cullen's new book "Columbine." [more about funeral], Dylan B Klebold at Archives.com. Military records of Dylan B Klebold at Fold3.com, a free resource for finding the final resting places, listings for thousands of celebrity graves. Heres a look at what has happened to the pepetraors of mass shootings: Omar Mateen killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida last week. "I was becoming somewhat toxic with my visibility and extrovertedness.". Hashtag: sysoon74522655, memorial74522655, grave74522655, death, funeral, findagrave, buria , obituary, 471201f, n B Klebold, obits, ssn, family. Kirsten, 65, arrived in Littleton as a Denver Seminary student in 1974. Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and a teacher. The expression on Dylan's face was unfamiliar, which Byron later confessed made it easier for him. I was very unstructured about it, she said of religion. Resend Activation Email. As he preached, Marxhausen could see Dylan, laid out before him in an open coffin. Marxhausen and Kirsten (and their colleagues) were engaged in spiritual triage, tending to hundreds of traumatized families. The Washington Post Company. I learned how fear can take hold of a community. His is one of severalinfamous names thatcant be found in cemeteries, either because families have workedto hide them or becausethere is nothing to marktheirfinal resting place: Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people, including 20 first-graders, in the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012; Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech;Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber who was executed in 2001, are all hidden. Sometimes graves are not marked for the opposite reason: Authorities fear they might become a place of worship. They feared that the graves would be desecrated, among other concerns. Login or Sign-up to show all important data, death records and obituaries absolutely for free! "You absorb everyone else's pain, and after a while that catches up to you, big time." Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. One toted a sign that read, Do not bury him on U.S. soil. A driver passing by shouted, Throw him off a boat like Osama bin Laden.. But its something. Harriss family never revealed thesite of their sons burial. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. I wouldnt consider him to be Jewish in any way or form, Rabbi Zwerin said of Dylan Klebold. While hundreds of mourners crowded today's televised funeral for 17-year-old Rachel Scott, a victim of the attack, Klebold's low-key service at a mortuary 20 miles northeast of Littleton was. How do you preside over the funeral of a 17-year-old boy who went to school one Tuesday morning and, with his good buddy Eric Harris, massacred 13 people just for fun? But I never thought it would hurt that much. To illustrate the religious environment of the area, she mentioned that Franklin Graham, a well-known evangelist, performed the memorial service for the slain children in front of a crowd of 65,000 that included Al Gore, the vice president at that time, who spoke. Sue Klebold broke down in tears as she remembered the funeral of her son Dylan. His father claimed his body but the burial site is unknown. I think we have more confidence in what didnt happen than what did.. ", But at West Bowles, the Cassie legend was not thenand is not nowa matter of debate. Marxhausen now lives south of Littleton in Highlands Ranch with his wife, and he ministers to a tiny, rural congregation in mountainous Idaho Springs. "I learned how fear can take hold of a community. 'Then you start to feel guilty, because as soon as you begin to feel happy, you begin to hate yourself. He agreed. Yet the Rev. This decision has haunted him ever since. The work is like cataloging hell, as New York magazine put it. There was a problem getting your location. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. She isnt aware of any synagogue in Littleton, and a Google search doesnt turn up results. Thirty of the 36 families whose relatives were either killed or injured by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris in the April 20, 1999, school shooting agreed to participate in a settlement for a total of . But it made the killers anti-heroes. Year should not be greater than current year. According to Klebold, he reveals this frustration on The Basement Tapes. Then, she said, Eric Harris stops and says, I didnt know you were Jewish, after which Dylan Klebold seems to turn fearful that Harris might target him. Sue remembered the moment she was told that her son was one of the shooters, admitting that she prayed for her son to die after finding out he had hurt so many people. "Tom Klebold told me he thought he had a good finished product." ___Their son, Dylan Klebold, 17, would have graduated from Columbine High School this spring and was planning to attend the University of Arizona in the fall. The body of Lincolns assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was kept in a storage room and then a warehouse for four yearsbefore authorities would allow him to be buried in the family plot. Later that afternoon the mother discovered that her son was dead, and remembered 'groaning' with emotional pain out loud while watching the news. [74522655-en], A funeral is a ceremony for celebrating, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. God was everywhere after Columbine. Despite being tormented by guilt, Sue says she is finally in a better place: 'You might have days where you start to smile or forget for a while who you are and what has happened to you. In Klebolds attempt to come to terms with her sons actions, she portrays him as a suicidal depressive instead of the monster depicted in the media. Review. He tells her he feels angry and doesnt know if he can control that anger, and she brushes off his reaction as normal adolescent behavior. The basics of personal finance, like How to save for a house. Figure out your next step toward financial freedom. Thanks for your help! Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Funerals, if they are even held, are expedited affairs. Eric kind of let his feelings be known, his hatreds or dislikes. A Navy pilot in Vietnam, Kirsten had seen horrors. We are burying a dead body. 'I decided to keep my name and stop hiding eventually and just acknowledge who I was,' she said. Tamerlan was killed as police pursued the suspects, and his uncle struggled to find a site that would accept his body. A dead person must be buried.. ", "Our sadness and grief over his death and this tragedy are indescribable," the statement said, and the Klebolds again apologized "to all those who have also suffered a loss of their loved one, and we continue to pray for the recovery of those who were injured. This monster, she told her hairdresser, Dee Grant, tears coming down her cheeks, was not the son I knew.. 'What I remember doing was just wanting to crawl in that casket with him, he was so cold I just kept thinking, I've got to get him warm, I just wanted him to be warm. He and his fellow gunman, Eric Harris, committed suicide at the end of their shooting spree. Burying the infamous: How killers from San Bernardino to Columbine are quietly laid to rest, Four reasons a credit-card balance transfer may be a bad idea, Dont let paying for a funeral add to your grief, Beware of these pitfalls when planning your own funeral. There were fewer mourners than there might have been, Reutersreported many who knew the dead refused to attend. As Sue and her family talked and told stories of their son and brother, I was given the opportunity to hear of the caring, loving side of Dylan that most people will never hear about.. Shocked by the disclosures to hundreds of traumatized families Kaddish for her son be... Remembered Foster suffering a backlash after saying Kaddish for her son Dylan my visibility and extrovertedness ``. Of God 's grace traumatized families parents, considered gifted in grammar school is reportedly buried in but... 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