DALLAS — A service was held in Uvalde on Saturday for one of the students killed in the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
The funeral for Alexandria Aniyah “Lexi” Rubio, 10, was Saturday morning at First Baptist Church. She was one of 19 students and two teachers killed in the massacre.
In her obituary, her family said she was “driven, athletic, intelligent and fun.”
She played softball and basketball, and loved spending time practicing one-on-one with her dad.
“Their playful banter, on topics from practice and school to his no-boyfriends rule, made [her dad’s] heart swell with girl-dad pride,” her obituary reads. “His little girl was opinionated and an impassioned debater, just like her mother.”
Alexandria wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps and attend St. Mary’s University. She wanted to major in math and eventually go to law school, her family wrote.
She has five siblings who comprised her “closest clique,” her family said.
“They describe her as fierce, with a beautiful, contagious smile that more often than not turned into a hearty laugh,” her obituary reads.
Alexandria loved talking on the phone with her friends, baking cookies with her grandmother, eating snacks with her family and watching TikTok, YouTube and Roblox, her family wrote.
Her family said she had not been looking forward to the end of the school year, because it meant she wouldn’t get to see her friends and teachers every day.
Alexandria is survived by her parents and siblings.
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