McCain, Lauren

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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 20, 2007

Services planned in Oklahoma for slain student

DURANT, Okla. (AP) - Funeral services for a student from Oklahoma who was killed in the attack at Virginia Tech this week will be held in Oklahoma and Virginia.

Twenty-year-old Lauren McCain was shot and killed Monday during a German class in the massacre that left 33 people dead, including the gunman.

Her uncle says services will be held on Sunday in Virginia then her body will be returned to Oklahoma for a service Wednesday afternoon at 1 at Aydelotte Baptist Church in Shawnee.

Burial will follow at New Hope Cemetery in Meeker.

McCain was born in Midwest City and spent several years in McLoud before her father's Navy career took the family to Florida, Texas and then to Virginia.

She has several family members in Durant, Calera and Shawnee

CBS/AP) Lauren McCain, 20, was originally from Oklahoma but most recently lived in the Hampton, Va., area.

The freshman, who was an avowed Christian, planned to major in international studies.

Home-schooled, McCain had worked at a department store for about a year to save money for college.

Her uncle, Jeff Elliott, speaking to The Oklahoman newspaper, described her as an avid reader who was learning German and had almost mastered Latin.

She spent several years of her childhood in Oklahoma but her father's Navy career also took the family to Florida, Texas and then to Virginia.

"She had a brilliant mind just in the way she thought about things and the way she went about her work," said Gary Heatherly, a former youth minister at Portland, Tex., First Baptist Church.

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