Slain couple remembered

ELBRIDGE - A bagpipe filled the air with the somber melody of “Amazing Grace” while a light breeze swept through a pavilion full of nearly 50 community members who came out to support the survivors of a local family left suffering in the wake of last week's murder of Joe and Jo Ellen Bisesi.

The prayer vigil, which was hosted by the reverends Katherine Day and Jim Stone, brought the Jordan and Elbridge communities together in a small park, a mile south of the Bisesi residence on Sand Bank Road where the couple's bodies were discovered by relatives in the side yard.

“We are representing the community churches,” Day said. “When this horror happened, I knew there were a lot of hurting people.”