'I Miss Her Desperately': Mother of Newtown Victim Returns to Orono

WCCO-TV interviewed Orono High School graduate JoAnne (Hagen) Bacon while she was in Minnesota this week for a private memorial for her daughter, Charlotte Bacon, who was killed in the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, MA:


“'I miss her desperately and sometimes we have deep despair, but overall I feel we’re pretty healthy. ... People ask us how are you doing and I usually answer with a shrug of my shoulders, ‘OK,’' [Bacon] said, before a crowd of about 30 people. “It’s a valid question and one that’s asked with true concern, but I’m always left wondering when will my answer of ‘OK’ mean what it used to be.” ...

"The Bacons placed a leaf on the Orono High School’s Memorial Garden tree to remember all of the people in the Orono family who were taken too soon. It read, 'Charlotte Hagen-Bacon, Class of 2024.'”

Related: 

• Daughter of Orono High School Graduate Killed in Newtown Shooting
• Charlotte Bacon Act Of Kindness Award
• Newtown, CT Residents Announce the launch of Newtown Kindness Awards

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