Details set for Jacob Wetterling memorial service

Published 2:42 pm Saturday, September 17, 2016

ST. JOSEPH — More details have been set for the public memorial service for Jacob Wetterling.

Services begin at 10 a.m. Sept. 25 at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph. The college said the event, which will include the Wetterling family, will be an “ecumenical prayer service of remembrance, hope and healing.”

Jacob Wetterling

Jacob Wetterling

The memorial marks the end of a nearly 27-year search for 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling, who was kidnapped in 1989. His killer confessed this month and led authorities to Jacob Wetterling’s remains.

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Due to limited seating, people attending are asked to sign up at an online guestbook at www.jwmemorial.net. The service will be livestreamed.

Memorials are preferred to the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children or children’s organizations dedicated to a better and safer world.