Blue-draped service. The family chose blue, Maddi’s favorite color, for a memorial service at a Winona State University gym. It was a community gathering.

Eulogists share memories of the 26-year-old mom

WINONA, Minn. – A community that had hoped against hope for weeks that Maddi Kingsbury would be fund alive put her to rest — finally, 86 days after she was slain but whose body remained missing for 10weeks. Among eulogists was her brother Steven, an Army sergeant who has been on leave to help in massive searches. One weekend there were 1,800 volunteers combing a 45-mile stretch along Highway 43 from Winona south to Mabel. Her body found June 7 taped tight in shroud in a sideroad ditch 11 miles north Mabel.

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