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Westfield High School Students to Hold Vigil for Mark Hollaway Sunday

Jackie Lieberman

Saturday, January 19, 2013 • 2:08pm

WESTFIELD, NJ—Students at Westfield High School are organizing a vigil for their friend and classmate Mark Hollaway, a freshman at the school who died Wednesday from illness related to the flu.

The vigil will take place Sunday at 6 p.m. in front of Westfield High School, 550 Dorian Road. Friends will be invited to come up and speak, according to Lanre Badmus, one of the administrators of the Facebook page RIP Mark Hollaway.

Friends created the Facebook page Thursday after hearing of Hollaway’s death. The page has gotten more than 800 “likes” since its creation.

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