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Millville police officer Christopher Reeves laid to rest

DEREK HARPER

CHRISTOPHER REEVES

Floral decorations at the grave of Millville police officer Christopher Reeves on Friday afternoon.

Dale Gerhard

Millville officer

The antique firetruck carrying the casket of Officer Christopher Reeves arrives Friday at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on West Main Street.

Dale Gerhard

Millville officer

The precession arrives a the cemetery Friday afternoon.

Dale Gerhard

Millville officer

The antique firetruck carrying the casket of Officer Christopher Reeves arrives Friday at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on West Main Street.

Dale Gerhard

Millville officer

Officers console each at the viewing. The funeral service for Millville Police Officer Christopher Reeves was held at Lakeside Middle School on Sharp Street in Millville. The service was followed by the burial at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Dale Gerhard

Millville officer

Police officers file in the school for the viewing.

Dale Gerhard

Millville officer

Offices console each other outside the viewing. The funeral service for Millville Police Officer Christopher Reeves was held at Lakeside Middle School on Sharp Street in Millville. The service was followed by the burial at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on West Main Street.

Dale Gerhard

Millville officer

The casket of officer Christopher Reeves is brought into the Lakeside Middle School on Sharp Street in Millville on Friday morning.

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Deceased Millville police officer Christopher Reeves

Michael Ein

Millville Cop

The body of Millville Police officer Christopher Reeves is loaded onto an antique firetruck outside Lakeside Middle School in Millville, Friday July 13, 2012, following his funeral service. Reeves was killed during a car chase when his police car was hit. (The Press of Atlantic City/Staff Photo by Michael Ein)

Michael Ein

Millville Cop

Derek Harper

MILLVILLECOP

The Millville Fire Department draped a large American flag over the Chestnut Street entrance to the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Friday morning in anticipation of Christopher Reeve's funeral procession later today.

DEREK HARPER

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Kathy Massie, 46, with a friend, wept as she watched the funeral of Millville Police Officer Christopher Reeves Friday afternoon. Her husband, Millville police Detective Sgt. Anthony “Skip” Massie, had been close with Reeves until Massie's death in December 2009. “I just buried my husband a year and a half ago,” she said. “He and Chris were like two peas in a pod."

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Police officers from around the region salute the grave of Millville Police Officer Christopher Reeves as he is laid to rest on Friday afternoon at Millville's Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.

DEREK HARPER

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Police officers from around the region salute the grave of Millville Police Officer Christopher Reeves as he is laid to rest on Friday afternoon at Millville's Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.

DEREK HARPER

CHRISTOPHER REEVES

More than 40 motorcyclists from a variety of organizations served as an honor guard for Millville police officer Christopher Reeves for the final 100 yards of Chestnut Street outside of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.

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