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‘Mahogany Strong’: More than 100 people gathered Saturday night to mourn the death of Mahogany Starling, a 2019 Henninger High School graduate who died Wednesday after being trapped in a house fire at 521 Garfield Ave. “My mom’s first baby is gone,” said Cora Starling, Mahogany’s sister. “My mother and my father and my brothers and sisters needed this (vigil) right now.”
Candlelight vigil held for Henninger grad killed in Syracuse house fire
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Over 100 people with candles and balloons gathered on Garfield Avenue for a vigil in honor of Mahogany Starling, who died Wednesday during a house fire on the street. The vigil was held Saturday, May 1, 2021. James McClendon | jmcclendon@syracuse.com
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Syracuse, N. Y. Mahogany Starling’s family stood on the sidewalk in front of a Garfield Avenue house surrounded by more than 100 friends and neighbors during a vigil Saturday night.
“My mom’s first baby is gone,” said Cora Starling, Mahogany’s sister. “My mother and my father and my brothers and sisters needed this (vigil) right now.”
POTSDAM â Katherine Mary âKatyâ Hawelka â she was the peacemaker.
When Katy died in 1986, she was 19, the second oldest of four children raised in Central New York. Joe was 16, Carey 17, and Betsy 21.
âWhen somebodyâs passed, you always say these wonderful things about them,â Carey Hawelka Patton said. âBut theyâre true.â
The kind of sisters who are best friends, Carey and Katy were almost inseparable through adolescence at Henninger High School in Syracuse. Quarrels among the siblings were often broken up by Katy, whose smile was as exceptionally warm as her wit was sharp.
Graduating from Henninger, Katy headed 142 miles north to Clarkson University in Potsdam to study business. The day after arriving for her sophomore year in August 1986, Katy was attacked, beaten, raped and strangled outside the universityâs Walker Arena. She died three days later on Sept. 1, Watertown doctors declaring her brain dead and the Hawelka famil