A Monster's Prey Remembered at Graveyard Ceremony

    A melancholy befell the North Watertown Cemetery this morning as four dozen or so friends and relatives of 11 year old Jack Blake gathered to dedicated his gravestone after 41 years in an unmarked final resting place.
    Young Jack was a fifth grader at the newly opened Wiley School when he was assaulted and murdered by a monster who went on to kill 12 others, including a little girl named Karen Ann Hill whose lifeless body was found under the Pearl Street Bridge, her mouth stuffed with dirt.
   Father Murray from Holy Family officiated as mourners heard a moving letter from Jack's best friend who now lives in Raleigh, NC.
   

 

       This was a nice event and I am glad I went. It was a reminder of how precious life is and of the 41 Thanksgivings all in attendance have enjoyed that young Jack never could.