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 | | Famed talk show host Oprah Winfrey, Entertainment Tonight correspondent and member of MDA’s Board of Directors Jann Carl, Lord of the Rings star Sean Astin, and television talk show host Montel Williams were among mourners who spoke about Mattie before the funeral mass. |
 | | Stepanek, 13, died on June 22, 2004, at Children's National Medical Center, in Washington, DC after a lifelong struggle with Mitochondrial Myopathy, a form of Muscular Dystrophy. |
 | | June 29, 2004 - An IAFF hero, renowned poet, champion of peace and spirited teen, Mattie J.T. Stepanek was laid to rest at the Interment Gate of Heaven Cemetery after a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Catherine LaBoure Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, on June 28, 2004. |
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