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This year will be heartbreakingly different. The girl's grandmother, Elba Marquez, said the family moved to Connecticut just two months ago, drawn from Canada, in part, by Sandy Hook's sterling reputation.

The grandmother's brother, Jorge Marquez, is mayor of a Puerto Rican town and said the child's 9-year-old brother also was at the school but escaped safely.

Elba Marquez had just visited the new home over Thanksgiving and is perplexed by what happened. A video spreading across the Internet shows a confident Ana hitting every note as she sings "Come, Thou Almighty King. Jorge Marquez confirmed the girl's father is jazz saxophonist Jimmy Greene, who wrote on Facebook that he was trying to "work through this nightmare.

A good mother, wife and daughter. Artistic, fun-loving, witty and hardworking. Remembering their daughter, Anne Marie Murphy, her parents had no shortage of adjectives to offer Newsday. When news of the shooting broke, Hugh and Alice McGowan waited for word of their daughter as hours ticked by. And then it came. Authorities told the couple their daughter was a hero who helped shield some of her students from the rain of bullets.

As the grim news arrived, the victim's mother reached for her rosary. It happens elsewhere. Her father, Robbie Parker, fought back tears as he described the beautiful, blond, always-smiling girl who loved to try new things, except foods. For Sandy resident Daren Cottle, the fact that his niece's daughter died along with teachers and classmates in a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary began first as an ugly possibility, but slowly twisted into an unbearable reality as news started to trickle in Friday through the family's circles of communication.

Alissa and Robbie Parker moved their family to Connecticut about a year ago for his job as a respiratory therapist. The loss of Emilie comes just months after the tragic loss of Alissa Parker's father. In September, year-old Doug Cottle died after two weeks in the hospital of brain injuries he received in a cycling accident. Daren Cottle said Emilie and her grandfather were very close. The bubbly first-grader turned to art to express herself after his death.

At the funeral, Emilie made sure to be a comfort to anyone feeling sad, recalled Brian Joy, an LDS bishop who has known the family for years. Joy knew the families of Alissa and Robbie while they grew up in Ogden.

The couple has grown to be compassionate, caring people, Joy said. Emilie, the oldest of three girls, seemed destined to follow in her parents' footsteps, he said.