Woman among four killed in Groton honored at Maine vigil
ROCKPORT, Maine — Sorrow and silence mixed at twilight Thursday as Elizabeth “Buffy’’ Krause was remembered and honored by hundreds of mourners at the panoramic crest of a hill overlooking Penobscot Bay.
Krause was slain last Friday in Groton, Mass., allegedly by her 22-year-old son Orion in a quadruple homicide that also took the lives of her parents and their caretaker.
But on a beautiful clear evening, her loved ones and friends gathered to commemorate a woman described as a person of uncommon generosity and caring.
If asked to describe “Buffy in one word it would be a ‘giver,’ ’’ Barbara Spear said after the brief service at the Beech Hill Preserve, one of Krause’s favorite places.
Deacon Bob Cleveland encouraged the gathering to search for the “gift of healing’’ amid their grief.
“I look in your faces, and I see the love that is there,’’ Cleveland said before the mourners sang a muted “Amazing Grace.’’
“I can just imagine her on a cool evening like this, walking up the path alone, perhaps burdened,’’ Cleveland said, but leaving “refreshed, renewed, hopeful.’’
