FALLEN RI OFFICER LAID TO REST
Ken (NY)
Dateline: Coventry, RI - 4/21/2001
Pawtucket Times
Stephanie Lawandowski
Family, friends and fellow officers gathered yesterday at SS. John &
Paul Church on South Main Street to say goodbye to Lt. John J.
Sinotte.
A bagpiper on the church's front lawn played "Amazing Grace" as about
125 police officers milled around outside.Honor guards from
Cumberland, West Warwick, the State Police and Johnston Fire
Department stood at attention with flags, rifles and sabers displayed.
Both Johnston police officers and their Explorer Post lined the way up
to the church's doors.
Johnston police officers wore black bands with the number 20,
Sinotte's badge number, over their badges.
Inside the church, the pews were filled to capacity, leaving only
standing room along the building's walls and vestibule.The Rev. John
A. Kiley, former curate at SS. John & Paul and current pastor of St.
Leo the Great in Pawtucket, and the Rev. Joseph P. Henry, pastor of
SS. John & Paul, concelebrated the Mass.
Robert J. DiPadua read from the book of Wisdom and Johnston Police
Sgt. Gary B. Petrarca read from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans:"If
we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord."
Father Kiley, who gave the homily, said that Sinotte was eager to help
people.He said that people in John's hometown of Pawtucket,
"Remembered him as the neighborhood paper boy."
David Mainelli, a nephew of Sinotte, read a poem he wrote himself
titled 'My Last Words.'"You were my hero, Uncle John, my giant, big
and tall.Your power was an empire, which would never be defeated -
never fall," read Mainelli.
Johnston Police Lt. Jeffrey S. Floyd gave the first eulogy.He
remembered Sinotte as someone who loved his family his friends and
God.He talked about why God would take Sinotte when he had so much
here on earth, a loving wife, a new baby and a second one on the
way."God has taken John to Heaven because St. Michael is waging an
epic battle," said Floyd.St. Michael is the patron saint of police
officers."What do we do now?We carry on his proud tradition," said
Floyd,"a tradition of loyal service to country and to God.
David Sinotte gave the second eulogy."He touched so many and cared so
much," said Sinotte of his brother.He said that his death happened for
a reason, for God needed him elsewhere.Sinotte talked about role
models and said that if they did not have any morals, they were not
good role models."John is the personal role model for all to live by,"
said Sinotte.
"He, as a child, was eager to learn and eager to help," said his
parents, Gerard and M. Janice Sinotte.
After Mass, the funeral proceeded through Wood Estates to Apple
Blossom Road, where the Sinottes live.Students from Tiogue Elementary
School, where Sinotte's wife, Jeanna, teaches, lined the road.Signs
reading 'We're thinking of you,'and 'We love Mrs. Sinotte,' were held
by the children.
Kelly Patterson, Tiogue Elementary School's Parent-Teacher Association
president said, "These kids wanted to show support.They love Mrs.
Sinotte."
The Sinotte's home's porch was filled with plants, bouquets and
arrangements that concerned people sent throughout the week.At the end
of their driveway waited 5-month-old Abigail, dressed in a pink dress
with matching pink sweater and headband, with Stephanie Garcia, a
neighbor of the Sinottes.
About 175 cars made up the procession, 93 of those police
cars.Officers from across the state, including a U.S. marshal made up
the line.The hearse stopped at the house.Mrs. Sinotte got out of the
limousine, accepted two white roses from her daughter and placed them
on her husband's casket.The procession then moved on to the burial
site at St. Joseph Cemetery in West Greenwich.
Jennifer Sacks, a sixth-grader who had Mrs. Sinotte in third grade
said, "She was the best teacher.She talked about her husband every
day.He had flowers on her desk every morning when she walked in."
Ken (NY)
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