BELLEVUE, Tenn. — Belmont University student Katie Keast, a Larned native, delivered an inspirational message during a Memorial Service for the Mull and Harter families Saturday night.
Glenn and Elaine Mull and Amy and Samantha Harter were memorialized in a service coordinated by the Bellevue Family YMCA. They died in a plane crash Feb. 3 at Bellevue, Tenn.
Others delivering messages were Chaplain Larry Yarborough, YMCA of Middle Tennessee; and Lindsay Ferrier, a Bellevue resident whose blog to the family has been meaningful.
Singer/songwriter Gary Chapman, a Bellevue resident, sang at the memorial along with the Nashville Christian Entertainers, a local high school choral group from Nashville Christian School directed by Joey Boone.
Martha Shrubsole, a dedicated YMCA volunteer, assisted with the planning of the memorial. She works at the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center in Nashville.  
“The whole Bellevue community has been deeply impacted by the loss of Glenn Mull, Elaine Mull, Amy Harter, and Sami Harter,” Shrubsole said. “We are honored to remember their lives and support their family.”
The memorial program was coordinated by the Christian Emphasis Committee is a standing committee at the Bellevue YMCA.
Its mission, “puts Christian principles into practice through annual programs, relationship establishment with local religious organizations and implementation of new areas of outreach for the purpose of building spirit, mind and body for all.”
The committee sponsors two annual events -- a prayer breakfast in November and a prayer service on the National Day of Prayer. During the year,  the group has sponsored collections of beds, shoes, food, and socks for the homeless youth in metro Nashville schools.
Bo Mitchell, Tennessee state representative, Bellevue YMCA board member, and a member of the planning committee, presented the family with a resolution he had passed honoring Glenn Mull and his family members.
The crash occurred less than 60 feet from the Bellevue YMCA, filled with about 300 people at the time of the accident.
“From the very moment that people became aware of the tragedy, we had many offers of help to honor the people affected,” Shrubsole said.  “YMCA leadership felt the Christian Emphasis Committee was best suited to assume responsibility for leading the efforts. But we had offers of assistance from many avenues.”  
An open invitation expanded the committee for planning purposes.
“Because so many in our YMCA community wanted to be of service to the Mull and Harter families, we opened the committee to board members for the purposes of planning the memorial,” Shrubsole said. “We had 20 people planning the memorial.”
The committee met twice and did the heavy lifting. But Shrubsole emphasized it was a team effort to pull off the tribute.
“There have been many phone calls and emails that have occurred to plan the service,” she said. “This has truly been a community-wide effort. Many businesses and individuals in the community have contributed their time, expertise, and finances. We have received donations of sound, meals, accommodations, programs, and many others.”