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Around noon on Thursday, Dan Parmenter phoned his mother, Linda Greer, to wish her a happy Valentine's Day.
A few hours later, she received a second, horrific phone call. This one informed her that her son, a hulking rugby player, had been killed in a shooting rampage on the DeKalb campus.
Reeling from grief, his mother is now left to deal with the massacre's shocking aftermath, planning a funeral for a life that was expected to stretch for decades.
But families such as Parmenter's are also left with memories of touching gestures, of phone calls, of small acts of love and courage.
"You think about it," Parmenter's stepfather, Bob Greer, said. "How many young men do that? But coming from him...It's something he would do. He was sensitive and considerate, and he acted on those impulses."
Parmenter, who grew up in Elmhurst, was a sickly baby who didn't seemed destined to become a bruising football and rugby player.
"He had a heart defect when he was born," Bob Greer said, "and when he was just a small little tyke, they had major heart surgery on him, and he pulled through."
He attended York High School in Elmhurst, where he played football. But it was the end of his gridiron career that sticks in Greer's mind.
"He acquired a fracture somewhere in the back, and the doctor said 'you can no longer play football, otherwise you risk damaging your back permanently,' " Greer said.
Parmenter said, "OK." He quit playing football and he picked up rugby instead.
"When Linda told me this, she said she didn't even know what rugby was," Bob Greer said. "I said, 'Linda, rugby is football without the padding.' "
Linda Greer and her former husband, Gary Parmenter, divorced several years ago, but they set up an unusual arrangement for their children. The kids stayed in the same home, while the parents would alternate staying with them.
"They did that for almost a year," Greer said. "Rather than the kids going from home to home, the parents swapped homes. They did that so that the kids would have a stable home life."
Dan Parmenter was a strong Christian believer who attended a church program for toddlers and continued going to church throughout his life, Bob Greer said.
Greer, a theology professor at Judson University in Elgin, was impressed with his stepson's grasp of spiritual matters.
"We have all the confidence that he is with God now," Bob Greer said. "We have a lot of fond memories. He is a young man that, you don't have to look back on his life with regret. You can look back with a lot of fulfillment and joy, because he was such a nice person."
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