Navy Yard shooting victims remembered at memorial services

Three of the victims of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard were remembered Tuesday at memorial services. Services for John Johnson, 73, in Gaithersburg, Md., and Mary Frances DeLorenzo Knight, 51, in Virginia's Fairfax County were private, The Washington Post reported. Hundreds of people gathered at a funeral home in Woodbridge, Va., for a service for Kathleen Gaarde, 62, a financial analyst who had worked for the Navy for more than 30 years. Her husband, Douglass, said in his eulogy that Kathleen would have disliked the pomp of the service, the sailors standing at attention as a trumpeter played Taps and the flag handed him by an admiral. "Tough," he told his wife, looking upward. Gaarde talked of how he and his wife had been separated for less than two months in their 43-year marriage. He came close to tears as he described their plans for retirement. Aaron Alexis, 34, a former Navy reservist and civilian contractor gunned down 12 people at the Navy Yard on Sept. 16 before he was killed by police. Investigators say he apparently chose his victims at random.