Here’s an excerpt from tommorrow’s story regarding a memorial service held for Charles and Renee Shaffer of La Verne, who died March 14 when their single-engine airplane crashed in Pomona:

GLENDORA — About 200 friends and family members of a La Verne husband and wife killed in a plane crash earlier this month gathered Saturday to memorialize the couple and celebrate their lives.
Charles “Chuck” Shaffer, 52, and his wife, Renee Shaffer, died March 14 when their single-engine airplane crashed into a Hillside near the 2600 block of Pomona Boulevard in Pomona, coroner’s officials said.
They are survived by five adult children from previous marriages and a young grandson.
“We’ve had kind of a hard week this week, but we got through it,” said one of the Shaffer’s sons, Charles Shaffer III.
“We’ve realized what’s really important is not why they died or how they died. It’s how they lived,” he said.
Mourners recalled the Shaffers as a fun-loving and caring couple who were deeply dedicated to each other.
Pictures of the couple skiing, scuba diving and going on adventures around the world were shown in a slide show at the memorial, which was held at Glendora Community Church, 645 N. Grand Ave.
Renee Shaffer’s brother, Louis Kreslie, recalled afternoons spent riding bikes with his sister as a child as well as recent excursions with his sister and her husband.
“They had a lot of dreams,” he said of the couple.