Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, was the first victim of Monday's shooting at The Covenant School to have a funeral service, which happened Friday afternoon at a Nashville church.

The first funeral connected to this week's massacre of three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville is set for Friday, a day after officials released distressing 911 calls reporting the shooting in the Tennessee city.

Family and friends of Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of three children who were killed in a school shooting in Nashville this week, remembered her as a “shining light” and said farewell to a girl who loved art,

The friends and families of those killed in the Nashville, Tennessee private school shooting at The Covenant School on Monday have scheduled funerals.

Amid a dark mood in Nashville, the girl's church pastor reminded mourners of Evelyn's aura of "hope and love."

Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, will be the first victim of Monday's shooting at The Covenant School to have a funeral service, set for Friday afternoon at a Nashville church.

Mourners will gather on Friday for the first of six funerals in the wake of Monday's mass shooting at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. Friends and family of 9-year-old victim Evelyn Dieckhaus were asked to wear pink and green to her funeral service on Friday afternoon.