Nia means purpose. Her father told the eulogist the one thing he wanted people to know about his daughter: “She had the ability to bring people together.”
The family and friends of Nia Wilson gathered Friday at an Oakland church for an emotional ceremony remembering the young woman before she was laid to rest.
18-year-old Nia Wilson was fatally stabbed at the MacArthur BART station in Oakland on July 22. Her sister was also injured in the attack.
The suspect, 27-year-old John Lee Cowell, was arrested the following day at the Pleasant Hill BART station. He faces murder and attempted murder charges.
Those gathered offered tearful goodbyes, remembering Wilson with song, prayers and stories about the young woman they call “an angel.”
The service was held at the Acts Full Baptist Church in Oakland and began at 11 a.m.
Nia’s family and friends dressed in white and gold in her memory, while white and gold flowers spelling out her name flanked the casket.
Speakers talked about the impact she had on the world during a short life that was brutally and abruptly ended.
People attending the service said the act of violence that took Nia away shows the racial divide in the community.
According to an obituary that was read aloud at her service, Wilson attended Oakland High School and Dewey Academy, was a spiritual person who read the Bible every day and loved fashion, music and doing makeup.
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After the service, 18 doves were released, one for every year Wilson was alive, and a horse-drawn carriage carried her casket to its resting place.
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