Liza Fletcher Funeral — Loved ones and the Memphis community gathered on Saturday to bid farewell to Tennessee teacher and mother Eliza Fletcher.
Funeral services for Eliza Fletcher, the mother and teacher whose abduction captured the nation’s attention, were held Saturday in Memphis.
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Fletcher, 34, was running near the University of Memphis campus around 4:30 a.m. on Sept. 2 when she was abducted and killed, allegedly at the hands of a stranger named Cleotha Henderson.
The funeral services was held at the Second Presbyterian Church, in Memphis, Tennessee, where Fletcher met her husband, Richard.
The service began with a children’s choir who sang, “This Little Light of Mine,” one of Fletcher’s favorite songs. Senior pastor George Robertson said she sang it for her kindergarten students.
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“Liza didn’t have the resume of a world changer,” Robertson told mourners. “She struggled through school and her college soccer career was cut short. She battled her way to finish college. Then she got her master’s degree and married Richie and had her beautiful boys and became a kindergarten teacher.”
“She was a light and also a joy,” he added. ‘It is right for us to grieve, but let us grieve with hope. Let’s carry on the legacy of our dear sister.”
Fletcher, of Memphis, who was called “Liza,” went missing Sept. 2 during a 4 a.m. jog near the University of Memphis and was discovered by authorities on Monday after a multi-day search.
Fletcher was forced into a dark GMC Terrain, Memphis police said. Her smashed phone and water bottle were also found nearby.
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Cops announced the discovery of a body that Monday, but didn’t confirm it was Fletcher’s until Tuesday. Her body was found more than three miles southwest of her home.
Cleotha Abston, 38, who served 20 years in prison for especially aggravated kidnapping in 2000, has been charged with murdering Fletcher, the granddaughter of a late billionaire.
Abston has also been charged with an additional count of aggravated kidnapping and rape in an “unrelated” case.
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