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April 20, 2024

Utah woman killed on Strip while with daughter remembered as devoted mom, wife

Heather Warino Alvarado

A horse-drawn carriage delivers Heather Alvarado’s casket to the Enoch cemetery on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Heather Alvarado was one of the victims in the Las Vegas shooting. (Jordan Allred /The Spectrum via AP)

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A program for Heather Alvarado's funeral sits outside the Enoch LDS stake center where the funeral services were held on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Heather Alvarado was one of the victims in the Las Vegas shooting. (Jordan Allred /The Spectrum via AP)

Las Vegas shooting victim Heather Warino Alvarado is being memorialized as a devoted wife and mother at a funeral in her southern Utah hometown.

The 35-year-old Warino Alvarado was killed in the Oct. 1 shooting at country music festival while with her teenage daughter, who was unharmed.

The Spectrum newspaper reports that at the funeral held Friday in the small city of Enoch, close friend and former neighbor Kailye Jones remembered how Heather would wish it was time to pick her kids up from school shortly after dropping them off because she missed them so much.

Warino Alvarado ran an in-home day care center and was married to a Cedar City, Utah, firefighter. They had three children.

She was among the 58 people killed in the massacre. Hundreds of others were wounded.