Hundreds of people — family, friends, co-workers and even strangers gathered to pay their respects to Gabby Petito at a memorial service in Long Island, N.Y., on Sept. 26. “Parents aren’t supposed to bury their children. This is not how life is supposed to work,” her stepfather, Jim Schmidt, said of the 22-year-old, whose body had been found in a remote campground in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest a week earlier. Her death has been ruled a homicide, and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, has vanished after returning from their cross-country trip without her. “I want you to be inspired by Gabby,” her father, Joseph Petito, added in his heartbreaking eulogy. “If there’s a trip you guys want to take, take it now. Do it now while you have the time. If…
