HOLBROOK, N.Y. — Gabrielle Petito, the 22-year-old Blue Point native whose disappearance and death stunned Long Island and riveted the nation, was remembered Sunday in Holbrook as a kindhearted young woman with a zest for life.
"I don’t want you guys to be sad," her father, Joseph Petito, said during a memorial at Moloney Holbrook Funeral Home. "Gabby didn’t live that way … people gravitated toward her. Her nature was always to smile."
More than 1,000 people lined up to pay their respects to the young woman, whose image had been a familiar presence on the country's airwaves as the search for her continued.
