There were a lot of tears, a lot of hands being held and, despite the circumstances, a lot of laughs at the funeral of Jackie Kulzer.

The 27 year old was one of the four people killed in the crash of a small plane on I-285 last Friday.

A crowd in the hundreds packed into the Cathedral of Christ the King, along Peachtree Street, to say goodbye and remember the life cut short.

Her family walked behind the casket as it was wheeled into the church, holding onto each other for strength and some of them crying.

Monsignor Richard Lopez spoke at the service, honoring the girl who he once taught while she was a student at St. Pius.

"She was a beam of light," Lopez says.  "Always smiling and, believe me, adolescent girls don't always smile.  She did."

He remembered Kulzer as a cheerleader at the school, "lifting people both literally and spiritually."

Lopez also related a story intended to point out how little we know about how things are.

"I was teaching and the class was supposed to be studying for a test," he says, "when I saw some students passing a note in the back of the room.

"I was furious, since they were supposed to be cramming for the test," says Lopez.  He went and angrily took the note and read it.

"It said, Happy Birthday Father Lopez.  We love you." he says.  "So, you never know what life is all about, even when you think you do."

Kulzer was killed along with Greg, Phillip and Chris Byrd, the man she was scheduled to marry in October.

"We were planning for a wedding," says Lopez.  "Now we're at a funeral."  But, he says, in their names, the funeral attendees should do something good for someone to honor their memory.

"And never forget that theirs was a match that was made in Heaven."