<p>Some 100 members of the Virginia Tech marching band played in a memorial service Saturday for bandmate Ryan Clark, who was remembered as a gregarious young man who went out of his way to make fellow students feel important and included.</p><p>Clark, a 22-year-old native of Martinez, Ga., was one of the first victims of Seung-Hui Cho, the brooding loner who murdered 32 people on campus before killing himself.</p><p>In Chantilly, Va., more than 1,800 people packed St. Timothy's Catholic Church for a service for another victim of Monday's massacre, Reema Samaha, and 1,500 filled a football field in Washington, Va., to celebrate the life of Emily Hilscher _ one of the first people shot in the massacre.</p><p>Hundreds of mourners packed the gym at Clark's former high school to hear rousing songs from his former bandmates and often cheerful praise for the young man who engaged everybody and had a contagious laughter.</p><p>"That's how Ryan was. He was the type of person that gave his all," band director David McKee said.</p><p>Clark, a resident adviser in the dormitory where the shooting spree started, was in his fifth year in the Marching Virginians band at Virginia Tech, which traveled to this small eastern Georgia town for the service at Lakeside High School, where Clark and his twin brother, Bryan, graduated in 2002.</p><p>Mourners were gathering at the high school Saturday afternoon, including Rhonda Pirtle, a woman from metro Atlanta who sported a Virginia Tech football jersey _ despite having no connection to the school or to Clark.</p><p>"Every time I see Ryan Clark on TV, I think about my son, while he's at school," at Louisiana State University, she said. "The students deserve to be safe. It's going to be a tough day."</p><p>Before the service started, the high school's gym was packed with people wearing maroon-and-orange ribbons, Virginia Tech's colors, or green ribbons, Clark's favorite color.</p><p>Jeff Czech, 23, one of the planned speakers and a longtime friend of Clark's who played in the high school band with him, said that he was still in shock.</p><p>"He didn't deserve this to happen to him, but he did deserve today to have the band and everyone who's here in support of him," Czech said.</p><p>Friends and family of Samaha's, one of 30 students Cho killed at Norris Hall, a classroom building, more than two hours after the shooting started, remembered the 18-year-old from Centreville, Va., as a dancer who loved movement and grace.</p><p>For more than an hour after the service, crowds gathered outside the church to share memories of the young woman her mother, Mona Samaha, called "a flower that got picked too early."</p><p>Hilscher was killed around the same time and in the same dorm as Clark.</p><p>A native of the rolling hills of Virginia's hunt country, Hilscher had a true passion for horses.</p><p>Her mother, Beth, said she "was not happy unless she smelled of horse manure."</p><p>Several people came in riding outfits, and a hunting horn was played at the end of the service.</p><p>Beth Hilscher last saw her daughter a week ago for her 19th birthday, and as she was leaving, Emily smiled and waved, giving her mother the urge to stop and give her one last hug.</p><p>"I wish I had," Beth Hilscher said.</p><p>As families said goodbye to their loved ones, investigators continued to look for clues into Cho's motives.</p><p>Authorities sought Cho's cell phone records on the chance he warned someone about what would become the nation's worst mass shooting in modern history.</p><p>Funerals are planned Monday for Clark at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta and for Samaha in McLean, Va.</p><p>____</p><p>Associated Press Writers Derrill Holly in Chantilly, Va., and Stephen Manning in Washington, Va. contributed to this report.</p>
