Graveside service scheduled today for slain pastor

A graveside service is scheduled this morning for Mark Alan Niederbrock, one of four victims found slain in a residential Farmville neighborhood Friday.

Niederbrock, 50, will be remembered at 11 a.m. at Walker's Presbyterian Church in Hixburg in Appomattox County, where he had served as a supply minister for the past six years.

Niederbrock, a native of Illinois, was a graduate of Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond and was in the process of becoming an ordained minister.

Services for Longwood University professor Debra S. Kelley, 53, and her daughter, Emma Kelley Niederbrock, 16, tentatively are scheduled for Oct. 3 at Farmville United Methodist Church at 1 p.m. Kelley was Niederbrock's estranged wife.

In Inwood, W.Va., a service will be held Friday at 6 p.m. for Melanie Grace Wells, 18, at the South Berkeley Chapel of the Brown Funeral Home.

-- Bill McKelway