Article: Slain Baylor player remembered as a caring man at memorial.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Bill Hanna and Jeff Caplan

WACO, Texas _ Before the memorial service honoring her son began Thursday night, Valorie Brabazon talked about how difficult it was to return to Baylor University.

It was, after all, where her son, Patrick Dennehy, came to pursue his dream of playing basketball but instead lost his life.

"It's not that easy to come back here, but I'm always going to go wherever they honor my son," Brabazon said.

Later, sitting in the front row of Powell Chapel at Baylor's Truett Seminary, Brabazon listened during the somber ceremony with about 300 other worshippers as Dennehy was praised as an outgoing, caring man ...

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