May 13, 2006 11:33 pm US/Eastern
Funeral Held For Randallstown Teen Electrocuted
by Kai Jackson
RANDALLSTOWN, Md. (WJZ) ―
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Tony and Deanna Green
WJZ
Family and friends gathered at a funeral Saturday morning for the teenage girl who died after being electrocuted at Druid Hill Park last week.
Deanna Green, a 14-year-old student at Deer Park Middle School, was electrocuted to death while stretching against a fence at Druid Hill Park before a church league softball game on May 5.
In a recently released statement, officials called her death the result of "the perfect storm scenario" as the fence she was stretching against was in contact with an underground power line. A source tells
WJZ Eyewitness News that insulation around the city-installed wire was apparently old and wearing off.
The funeral held at Colonial Baptist Church in Randallstown on Saturday was also a celebration of Deanna's life through music and memories. Hundreds of friends and family packed into the church where she was a member and a part of the choir. She had dreamed of becoming a lyric soprano.
"So to Deanna I say, sing on my shining star, sing on in that heavenly choir where you don't have to worry about the sopranos ever going sharp or the altos going flat," said Rochelle Archelus, Deanna's choir teacher.
She was laid to rest at Druid Ridge Cemetery.
"Deanna, your legacy will live forever more, and because of it, God will open door after door," said Kristen Anderson, one of Deanna's friends.
A viewing was held Friday for Deanna. Her brother, Tony Green, sat down then with
WJZ Eyewitness News at his Randallstown home to talk about his family's tragic loss.
Tony is a high school football player, and he said Deanna was his biggest cheerleader.
"She was my number one fan. She was at every game," Tony tells
WJZ's Kai Jackson. "I dropped a touchdown pass and she ran down the sidelines screaming at me and I saw it on film and I laughed."
Tony said his younger sister was full of life, but that life was tragically cut short last week. He was at work when he got the news.
"When I got that phone call I was hoping they were going to say she hurt her leg or something. But I got to the hospital and I was like a half an hour late. She died at 9:30 and I got there at 9:50," he says.
Despite there being a sense of emptiness in the Green household, Tony said there are endless wonderful memories of his sister.
"She loved to sing. She loved playing softball--that was her thing, softball," he recalls. "I was proud of her. I would tell her I was better than her sometimes, but she knew I was joking."
But Tony said he does wish he could have been at the hospital before she passed away, only regretting he didn't get the opportunity to say goodbye.
"If I had just told her I love her that morning, I wouldn't have regrets about anything, even though I told her I love her everyday."
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