Photo of the Day: From Downtown Rochester, Gifts for Sandy Hook Families
The personalized lockets are engraved with this phrase: 'I am an angel and a hero,'
A downtown Rochester jeweler has designed personalized lockets for the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December. Vince and Joe Lucido, owners of Lucido Fine Jewelry, created heart-shaped silver lockets engraved with the phrase "I am an angel and a hero" on one side and the victim's name on the other. Inside each locket is a photo of the victim. The Lucidos created the jewelry after receiving a call from a customer with the idea for the lockets. “When we heard of the request to make these lockets, we never gave it a second thought,” Vince Lucido said. “As the locket says, these children and adults were angels and heroes, and they were taken much too soon. "We felt honored to design these necklaces and…
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jessica Dempsey
1:31 pm on Sunday, March 10, 2013
and the article is wrong about the necklaces ! the front of the lockets said I am a Angel and a hero ! The back of the locket said they will always be remembered and never forgotten ! They did not have each persons named ingraved on them . and it was not 26 heart shaped lockets ! it was 20 heart lockets for the moms who lost there children and it was 6 oval lockets for the mothers and husbands of… more ›