BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — An Alabama student who died from what police believe was an accidental drowning while on holiday in Spain will be laid to rest at his home outside Chicago next week.
So beloved by friends and family, there were two memorial services held this week–in Chicago and Tuscaloosa respectively– for James Paul Gracey, an accounting major at the University of Alabama whose body was pulled from the water off the beach in Barcelona days after being last seen at a nightclub in town on March 17. Gracey, or “Jimmy” as he was often called, will now be coming back home.
Gracey’s funeral is set to be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Visitation Catholic Church in his hometown of Elmhurst, Illinois, located less than 30 minutes away from Chicago…