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The 63-year-old Zanis was laid to rest yesterday, two weeks to the day after she was killed just down the road from the Harmon church.
While family, friends and church members said their final goodbyes to the Dededo resident, police continue to search for the driver who struck her on Fatima Road, near the intersection of Route 16.
The elderly woman, who was a fixture along Guam's roads, lay in a white casket at Saint Paul's yesterday, dressed in a white cable-knit sweater, black slacks, a departure from her daily uniform of denim jeans, and what her niece Teresa Perez described as her "formal black hat." The woman's blue-and-red lunch bag, which she carried with her each day, also was placed in the coffin with her.
Although she suffered through tragedy after tragedy, including the loss of her husband in a fishing accident and the unsolved murder of her eldest daughter, Zanis' spirit was never hardened, Perez said.
"Some of the hardships she went through could have easily consumed a lesser person," Perez said of her aunt while wiping tears from her eyes. "She didn't give it back to the world like it had given to her. A lesser person would have taken all their anger and would have been very unstable in their faith in humanity."
Instead, Zanis got up each day, met with dozens of people and visited with friends and family.
Pastor Eva Pineda, of Saint Paul, said the elderly woman had been an active member of the church.
Zanis was a person who would always reciprocate, Pineda said.
"She comes early in the morning and tried to sweep the lobby, whatever she could do to give back," she said.
Since her death, the church has been flooded with calls from people wishing to share their stories of the woman, Pineda said.
"She will be missed in the community," she said. "So many people have been asking about her. She would really bring conviction to some of us. Even if we have a car, there are some of us who can hardly come to church on time."
Tips have continued to roll in to the Guam Police Department and Guam Crime Stoppers hot line, but they haven't led to the person responsible for Zanis' death, GPD spokesman Officer Allan Guzman said yesterday.
"We ask that people continue to call in to the police department with information," Guzman said.
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