WINNIPEG -- Funeral services were held Saturday for a six-year-old victim of the U.S. school shootings who had lived in Canada.
A horse-drawn carriage brought the miniature coffin of Ana Marquez-Greene to a church in Bloomfield, Conn., where a thousand mourners gathered to bid goodbye.
The service included a performance by Harry Connick Jr., who has played with the girl's jazz saxophonist father, Jimmy Greene, the Connecticut Post reported.
Ana was one of twenty children killed when a gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Newtown on Dec. 14.
Ana and her family had just moved back to Connecticut after living in Winnipeg for three years. Her father was well-known in Winnipeg's jazz community.
Family and friends remembered her as wild-haired child with her own love of music.
"Ana had a song," said the Rev. Paul Echtenkamp of Glory Chapel International Cathedral in Hartford. "It just came out of her."
Hundreds of people also came together in Winnipeg to mourn Ana's loss.
Local media reports say the service was broadcast via video feed for mourners at Grant Memorial Baptist Church in Winnipeg.
