Mourners packed a church to overflowing yesterday for the funeral of a popular high-school student president killed along with two friends last week when an allegedly drunk friend driving her home from her birthday bash slammed his car into a tree.
The Rev. Joseph Nixon, delivering the homily at the funeral mass for Christina Theodule, 18, of Westbury, compared her death to a blackout.
“You go into total darkness with no warning. You feel hopeless, helpless, lost and angry,” he told Theodule’s family and classmates from Holy Trinity HS, where she graduated this year and was president of the senior class.
Some 700 people – including virtually all her classmates – jammed into St. Brigid Church in Westbury to say goodbye to the accomplished, well-liked teen who organized the school’s homecoming and prom as well as several toy drives and was about to enter St. John’s University on a scholarship.
Theodule was killed early Monday when the car in which she and five others were riding went off the Northern State Parkway and hit a tree.
Richard Hall, 21, of Westbury, has been charged with DWI and manslaughter.
Two others died in the wreck. Cops said Hall was speeding.
Theodule was an impassioned supporter of SADD – Students Against Drunk Driving.