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Mourners in Calif. remember slain Yale student
By DON THOMPSON,Associated Press Writer -
Sunday, September 27
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EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. – A Yale University doctoral student found murdered on what was to be her wedding day is being remembered Saturday as a brilliant woman who hoped to change the world through her medical research.
Annie Le, who was 24, is to be eulogized and buried near where she grew up in California's Sierra Nevada foothills. In a statement issued Friday by the university, her family recalled Le's beaming smile and fun-loving spirit.
"She was a kindhearted human being who was devoted to her family and friends, always sacrificing her time to help others," the family said. "Her laughter was infectious and her goodness was ingenuous."
Saturday's funeral Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in El Dorado Hills, about 30 miles east of Sacramento, follows a memorial service earlier in the week at the Long Island synagogue of her fiance, Jonathan Widawsky.
The church's pastor, Monsignor James Kidder, said Le's interest in medical research reflected her outlook on life, which emphasized caring about others.
"She went into medicine because she wanted to help people as best she could," he said in a telephone interview as he prepared for Saturday's service. "While she was a great achiever, she really showed that the great achievement she had was really to be more competent and passionate about caring for the sick ... research that she felt hopefully will bring cures."
Kidder had been Le's pastor until she graduated from Union Mine High School near Placerville and left for college. He said her family was seeking healing from Saturday's funeral and burial.
Lab technician Raymond Clark III has been charged with killing Le five days before her body was found on Sept. 13, the Sunday she was to marry Widawsky. She had been stuffed inside a wall in the basement of a research building in Yale's medical school complex.
The statement released by the university also contained details of Le's family life.
Le (pronounced "lay") was born to Vietnamese parents Hoang and Vivian Van Le in San Jose, according to the university. He remarried after a divorce, but the university did not say where he or Le's mother live.
She and her brother Chris Le, a student at the University of California, Davis, were raised by an aunt and uncle near Placerville, in a home deep in the woods and miles from the nearest town.
They are described by the family as her "guardian parents." The guardians, Robert Linh Nguyen and Ngoc-Tuyet Bui, had three children of their own.
A family spokesmen could not say when Le's parents came to the U.S. from Vietnam or why she was raised by her aunt and uncle.
Annie Le excelled in school and took a special interest in science and medicine. She graduated as valedictorian and at the top of her high school class in 2003. Classmates voted her "most likely to be the next Einstein."
Her drive led her to spend hours applying for college scholarships, eventually being awarded nearly $160,000 worth. She attended the University of Rochester in New York, majoring in bioscience, and met Widawsky, now a graduate student in physics at Columbia University.
Le began attending Yale as a graduate pharmacology student in 2007 and was on track to earn her doctorate in 2013. She was working on research with enzymes that Yale said could help with treating cancer, diabetes and muscular dystrophy.
Colleagues and family members said she had an outsized personality and a determined will that belied her 4-foot-11, 90 pound frame.
"Although Annie was small in size, she had a large heart and a personality that filled the room," her laboratory colleagues wrote in the university statement. "No challenge ever seemed too large for her to overcome."
Yale officials are planning an Oct. 12 memorial service on campus and said they are establishing a scholarship in her memory.
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