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Hundreds attend funeral for girls killed in fire

Christmas blaze took five lives

By Karen Matthews

 |  Associated Press  

  January 06, 2012

Hundreds of people streamed into a historic church in the heart of Manhattan yesterday for the funeral of three young girls who died along with their grandparents during a Christmas morning fire in Stamford, Conn. The “Service in Thanksgiving for the Lives of Lilian, Sarah and Grace Badger’’ was held at St. Thomas Church, a historic Episcopal congregation housed in a French High Gothic style stone edifice.

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