Mount Rainer shooting

Mount Rainier National Park superintendent Randy King walks past a photo of Ranger Margaret Anderson and traditional ranger equipment before speaking at Anderson's memorial service Tuesday in Tacoma, Wash. Anderson, a 34-year-old mother of two young girls, was shot and killed Jan. 1 after setting up a roadblock to stop a vehicle that blew through a checkpoint on the road to the park's visitor center. (ELAINE THOMPSON/The Associated Press)

Thousands celebrate life of slain Mount Rainier ranger with Utah ties

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 12:50am

TACOMA, Wash. — Margaret Anderson became a law enforcement officer with the National Park Service because she wanted to help people, and she put herself in the way of evil on New Year’s Day because of her deep religious faith and love for others, her father told thousands of people Tuesday at her memorial service.

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A photograph of Margaret Anderson and mountaineering sits on the stage of the memorial for U.S. National Park ranger Margaret Anderson held in Olsen Auditorium on the Pacific Lutheran University campus in Parkland, Wash. , Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. Anderson was shot and killed on duty in Mount Rainier Naitional Park on New Year's Day. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Peter Haley, Pool)

Thousands celebrate life of slain park ranger with Utah ties

Last updated Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 5:07pm

TACOMA, Wash. -- Top federal officials, fellow park rangers and thousands of well-wishers have gathered in Washington state to celebrate the life of Margaret Anderson, a Mount Rainier National Park ranger who was fatally shot on New Year's Day.

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