As the funeral processions unfolded this week across Newtown, Conn., laying to rest the 26 victims of last week’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the massacre’s often- uncounted 27th victim was quietly memorialized Thursday: Nancy Lanza, the mother of Adam Lanza, the killer.

An official source in New Hampshire confirmed that a private funeral, attended only by her family in an undisclosed location, had been held for Lanza, 52.

“About 25 family members attended,” said Donald Briggs Jr., police chief in Kingston, N.H.

Lanza grew up in Kingston, married her high school boyfriend and bore the couple’s two sons before moving to Connecticut in 1998.

Her family in New Hampshire has kept a low profile since the killings. Lanza’s mother, Dorothy Hanson, a 79-year-old former school nurse, broke down and could not speak when contacted by a reporter.

— Los Angeles Times