SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. (AP) – Two weeks after the death of Terri Schiavo, friends and relatives gathered for a memorial service Friday evening at the suburban Philadelphia church she attended as a child and where she was married in 1984.

Schiavo’s parents, brother and sister took part in the service at Our Lady of Good Counsel attended by about 500 people, including uniformed students of the high school where Schiavo graduated.

“If Terri’s death has taught me anything, it is to make me starkly aware that matters of life and death are truly in our hands,” the Rev. Clemens Gerdelmann said in a brief homily.

Before the service, friends and relatives clustered in small groups to visit and reminisce.

“She was the sweetest, kindest person – full of life, always bubbly, always happy,” said Sean Pickford, 41, who went to high school with Schiavo’s younger brother and said he often visited the family home.

It is the fourth service the parents have held for Schiavo. A community memorial was held in Florida hours after she died, followed by a funeral Mass and another memorial in the following two weeks.

Michael Schiavo also plans to hold a memorial service for his wife in Pennsylvania, but he has not said when. He is under court order to notify the parents of his plans.

Schiavo had his wife cremated, and said her ashes would be buried at a family plot in Pennsylvania. Schiavo’s parents had opposed her cremation and hoped to bury her in their adopted state of Florida.

Michael Schiavo’s attorney, George Felos, did not return a call Friday.

Schiavo died March 31 at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order – ending a bitter legal battle between her husband, Michael, and her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.

The right-to-die case reached Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Vatican and the White House as the Schindlers tried to have their 41-year-old daughter’s feeding tube reinserted.

Born and raised in the Philadelphia suburb of Huntingdon Valley, Schiavo was a graduate of Archbishop Wood Catholic High School.

She met Michael Schiavo while attending Bucks County Community College outside Philadelphia, and they wed in 1984. The couple moved to Florida two years later, but many friends and family remain in the Philadelphia area.

Doctors said Schiavo had been in a persistent vegetative state since collapsing in 1990, when her heart temporarily stopped and cut off oxygen to her brain.

Michael Schiavo said his wife told him she would not want to be kept alive under such circumstances. The Schindlers disputed that their daughter was in a vegetative state and said that her condition could improve.