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By MICHAEL P. RELLAHAN, Staff Writer For the Daily Local News
Donkewicz
WEST CHESTER — The family of arson victim Irene Kempest told the judge sentencing her killer Tuesday they would follow her example and not give in to anger over her death.
Kempest, who emigrated from her native Poland after surviving the horrors of a World War II work camp, had constantly preached the value of loving one's neighbors and forgiving their trespasses, one family member said.
"We want to see things through her eyes and her heart and to believe that true love can conquer all. It doesn't seek revenge," said Cheryl Pluck, Kempest's daughter-in-law, who lived next to the house where Kempest lived when George Donkewicz set it on fire in 2008 in Coatesville City.
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Donkewicz
WEST CHESTER — The family of arson victim Irene Kempest told the judge sentencing her killer Tuesday they would follow her example and not give in to anger over her death.
Kempest, who emigrated from her native Poland after surviving the horrors of a World War II work camp, had constantly preached the value of loving one's neighbors and forgiving their trespasses, one family member said.
"We want to see things through her eyes and her heart and to believe that true love can conquer all. It doesn't seek revenge," said Cheryl Pluck, Kempest's daughter-in-law, who lived next to the house where Kempest lived when George Donkewicz set it on fire in 2008 in Coatesville City.
Full Story: The Daily Local News : Serving Chester County