Jessamine County

Funeral services for couple killed in Brussels are held at Southland Christian Church

Herald-Leader Staff Report
Family and friends filed out after the funeral for Justin Blake Shults, and wife, Stephanie Michele Moore Shults, at Southland Christian Church in Nicholasville, Ky, on April 8, 2016. Stephanie Shults was from Lexington. The married couple were killed in the March 22 terrorist attack at the Brussels airport.
Family and friends filed out after the funeral for Justin Blake Shults, and wife, Stephanie Michele Moore Shults, at Southland Christian Church in Nicholasville, Ky, on April 8, 2016. Stephanie Shults was from Lexington. The married couple were killed in the March 22 terrorist attack at the Brussels airport. Pablo Alcala palcala@herald-leader.com

Funeral services were held Friday for a couple with Lexington ties who died in terrorist bombings on March 22 in Brussels, Belgium.

Services for Stephanie Shults, 29, and her husband, Justin Shults, 30, were held at Southland Christian Church in Jessamine County.

Stephanie Shults was born in Lexington, graduated from Bryan Station High School and Transylvania University, and later went to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where she met her husband.

He went to Gatlinburg Pittman High School in Tennessee. Memorial services for the couple will be held Sunday at Richardson’s Cove Baptist Church in Sevierville, Tenn.

This story was originally published April 8, 2016 at 4:21 PM with the headline "Funeral services for couple killed in Brussels are held at Southland Christian Church."

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