Fall River Teen Remembered at Boys and Girls Club

By Ana Bottary

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Hundreds of candles glowing in memory of Hannah Raposo. Fall River community members gathering outside the Boys and Girls club Monday, a place Hannah called her second home for more than 10 years.
 
"It’s been very hurtful that my Hannah has been gone. But to see the community, the people, the boys club, to feel the way they do about my Hannah, it makes me warm,"says Hannah’s mother Angela Lehn.
 
Hannah died in a rollover crash early Friday night. She was on the way to her senior prom. Friends from the Boys and Girls club, say Hannah, or Ropo as they knew her, was someone they looked up to. She served as President of the Keystone Club, and was recently named youth of the year.
 
"She was a great role model to everybody in the community around her," says friend, Hailey Dapont.
 
"She helped us become better in school, and she helped us with community service, and she was a really nice person," says another friend Haley Moller.
 
"She always hugs everyone. She was the best person you could ever think of,"adds Andro Alkhawande.
 
18 doves were released, each representing a year of her life. Hannah’s family says the support from the community gives them strength.
 
"It’s a family. It’s more than a community. It gives us peace. It makes us feel good. It means Hannah’s spirit is alive,"says her Grandfather, Michael Miozza.
 
"It just wants me to embrace the life she had. Embrace everybody, you know? Show that there is life, and life can go on and thanks to them it will. She will be greatly missed.. she will be greatly missed," adds Lehn.

Massachusetts State Police believe Hannah was not wearing her seat belt. As a result her family is asking in her memory, for people to buckle up.
 

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