More than 1,000 pay tribute to Neosho murder victims

More than 1,000 attended funeral services in Goodman today for the three victims of last Sunday's shooting at the First Congregational Church of God in Neosho, according to Marcus Kabel's Associated Press article:

On Saturday the victims were remembered for helping a Micronesian community of around 600, many of whom arrived in the area in the 1980s and early 1990s looking for better education for their children and work in local poultry and other industries.

All three men were pastors or associate pastors of the Micronesian congregation that met for services in their native languages in Neosho's First Congregational Church.

"I think that they would ask you to pick up their standard and continue as standards have been picked up on battlefields where men are injured or fallen," said the Rev

. Tom Thorne, pastor of the First Congregational Church, who presided at the funeral.