Thank you for answering his prayers’: Yellowknife community remembers Mark Lynn – CBC

Sep 11, 2016

Church fills up for funeral of 21-year-old who was last seen Aug. 24

An elder held her hand against the casket as people shuffled by to get to their seats at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in Yellowknife Saturday afternoon.

It had stopped raining about an hour earlier, but there was still an autumn chill in the air. Five men stood in one corner of the church, hugging their traditional drums close to their bodies, keeping them warm for the song they were about to perform.

Nearly every seat was filled in the church as Mark Lynn’s casket was carried down the aisle, led by Bishop Mark Hagemoen.

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