* Sarah Szafranski's funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Damian
Parish, 5220 W. 155th St., Oak Forest.

* Connie Woolfolk's funeral will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at Leak and Sons
Funeral Home, 18400 S. Pulaski Rd., Country Club Hills.

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JR Allas [VROC #1585] wrote:
>
> 'She doesn't deserve this'
>
>
> Friends, loved ones of Rhoda McFarland mourn her violent death
>
> February 8, 2008
>
> CREST HILL -- Friends and family gathered Friday to mourn the
> senseless slaying of former pastor and retail manager Rhoda McFarland.
> "Rhoda, she doesn't deserve this. I know that," said long-time friend
> Donald Newell of Joliet.
>
> "What had she done?" Newell said, leaving the question hanging as the
> grieving passed by McFarland's flag-draped coffin.
>
> Rhoda McFarland's wake began Friday afternoon at Word of Life
> Christian Center in Crest Hill.
>
> McFarland was the manager of the Tinley Park Lane Bryant store where
> she and four customers were shot to death. A Mokena woman survived the
> attack with a bullet wound to her neck. She is in protective custody.
>
> McFarland's wake was in the same church building where she once
> worked. She was a pastor at Embassy Christian Center in Crest Hill,
> which has since been renamed Word of Life Christian Center.
>
> In addition to working for the church and managing Lane Bryant,
> McFarland also was an employee of Nicor and served in the Air Force.
>
> Sources say McFarland called 911 from the store to report the attack,
> which her dad did not know.
>
> McFarland¹s funeral will be today at Word of Life Christian Center
> following a 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. visitation, said her father, Hilton
> Hamilton.
>
> She will be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Joliet.
>
> *Members of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, plan to picket
> today at the funerals of two of the victims.
>
> They are scheduled to picket at the funerals of Sarah Szafranski, 22,
> of Oak Forest, and Connie Woolfolk, 37, of Flossmoor. The church
> members are known for demonstrating at funerals of fallen American
> soldiers.
>
> "The wrath of God is pouring out on this nation," said Shirley
> Phelps-Roper, an attorney and daughter of church founder Fred Phelps.
> Phelps-Roper said soldiers are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan because
> of the "homosexuals and other sins of America."
>
> Phelps-Roper, a prominent member of the WBC, suggested that the Tinley
> Park shootings were "God's will."
> *
> But Newell, a friend of McFarland for the last 25 years, said, "People
> really need to get close to God and find out what God is."
> He wondered aloud about men committing acts of violence against women.
> "
> "It's just traumatic," he said. "For what reason? I don't know. I'm
> still trying to gather myself."
>
> Jim Hook of Sun-Times News Group contributed to this story. Contact
> Joe Hosey at (815) 729-6054 or jhosey@...
> <mailto:jhosey@...?Subject=Story.Response>
>