I'm a lousy judge of numbers......but I'll guess there were 1200-1500 people at the funeral.
Nice service with a mix of laughs and tears. Some of the pictures shown were absolutely heartbreaking.
Pearse Tormey and the coach from Furman gave very nice talks, as did two of Mac's teachers. Probably the most emotional came from a little guy who I think was a year behind Mac.....and he basically said that he would live his life and experience certain milestones for Mac (kiss a girl for the first time, etc) and would tell him all about it when he went to heaven.
'93 boys all seemed to handle things admirably....teary eyed at the end, but composed. When a couple of us parents left the sanctuary to go home.....we found about 8-10 of the '93 and '94 boys out in the lobby area sitting on a couch / bench type thing eating cookies together and just hanging out. Pls keep them all in your prayers, as well as obviously the Allen family and close friends.
And for our friends at Bridge...there were some great pictures of the two teams battling it out either 2 or 3 years ago when Bridge was primarily a Summerville team. Pretty cool to see the kids from the early days of a rivalry that will hopefully last thru U18!!
