Lavinia Gelineau will be buried next to her husband, Christopher, at Portland's Evergreen Cemetery.
Published on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 by the Portland Press Herald (Maine)
A Murder, a Casualty of War a Father Mourns a Love Story Cut Short
by Bill Nemitz
They last visited Evergreen Cemetery together just over a month ago. John Gelineau watched his daughter-in-law, Lavinia, get out her small shovel to clear the fresh snow from Chris Gelineau's grave and smiled at her determination.
"I said, 'Lavi, why not just wait for it to melt? It's all going to melt soon,' " John recalled. "And she said, 'No. I'm not going to allow this. I want Chris to have sun. It's happening now - are you going to help or what? "
And so he helped. And now, as he careens toward another funeral and another burial in the same place his son has rested since he was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq last April, the man who over the past year became a much-needed lifeline to Lavinia Gelineau finds himself once again lost in a cloud of disbelief.
"I went into shock when Chris died," he said. "But this is just . . . way over the edge."
He sat Monday in the kitchen of one of Lavinia's friends, grappling with the horrifying news that greeted him last Friday when he returned to his home in Vermont from an anti-war meeting and got a call from his nephew: Lavinia had been murdered by her father, Nicolae Onitiu, who was visiting her at her new home in Westbrook. Then her father hanged himself.
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