Apalachee Excessive College math instructor Cristina Irimie was celebrating her birthday along with her college students the day she and three others have been fatally shot in Wednesday’s mass capturing.
“She determined to bake a cake and convey pizza to her class the day she died so she might have a good time her birthday along with her children,” grieving buddy Corneliu Caprar advised CNN.
Irimie and her husband couldn’t have youngsters of their very own, so she thought of her college students her children, the pal stated.
The Romanian-born educator had turned 53 earlier, in August.
Irimie, who immigrated to the US greater than 20 years in the past, was recognized for her smile, her vibrant character and her ardour for her instructing — which to her was not only a job, however a calling, associates stated.
“The very first thing you see is her massive smile. She was at all times smiling,” Father Nicolae Clempus, pastor of St. Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church in Dacula, advised Fox 5 Atlanta.
Clempus stated Irimie’s husband is grieving the lack of his beloved spouse in non-public.
“He’s positively devastated and heartbroken. They have been collectively on a regular basis, having a really good and delightful household life,” the priest stated.
“There’s no logic in this sort of tragedy,” he stated of her mindless demise however including that she would stay on within the hearts of her church household and others who knew her.
“We take into account her a hero. Any person that we’re going to recollect and look to as a task mannequin for our generations.”
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