Shannon Tavarez, the 11-year-old Broadway singer who died of leukemia last week, said goodbye to friends and family in her own words at a heartbreaking funeral service in New York on Monday. "We are happy and sometimes sad. It always hurts to go. But we do start a new beginning, so I bid you goodbye," Tavarez said in a videotaped poem, her white casket draped with flowers nearby, according to NY1. Hundreds of friends, family members and fellow performers gathered at the Greater Allen Ame Cathedral in Queens to remember a big-hearted girl with talent to match, who fell ill...
- 11/9/2010
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
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