Back-to-Back Funerals. Mourners 50 Deep. Pittsburgh Grieves, 11 Times Over.
PITTSBURGH — The public rituals of grief in Pittsburgh kept accumulating on Wednesday with more funerals, more burials and more communal gatherings for the 11 killed in the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue.
At Beth Shalom Synagogue, people gathered early Wednesday to mourn Joyce Fienberg, 75, a well-loved researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. A little over an hour later, visitation had begun for Irving Younger, 69, at Rodef Shalom Temple, the second service there in two days.
“He wasn’t the tallest guy, but he had the biggest heart,” said Marsha Mintz, 74, a longtime friend who was waiting in the visitation line. She was a guest at the wedding of Mr. Younger and his late wife, Sherry, and remembered how he had doted on her. “She was ill for a very long time and he took care of her with such devotion,” Ms. Mintz said, choking back tears.
Emily Harris, 69, was in Mr. Younger’s graduating class in high school when they were growing up in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. “He was a good guy, a solid guy: what we call a mensch,” she said. “He was a friend you could always count on.”
Most of the mourners tried to keep the focus on the people being remembered, but sometimes the horrific circumstances behind it all crept into mind.
“You see all that’s going on in the world,” Ms. Harris said, “and every time I’m out in a crowd, I get visions of something like this happening.”
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