On a sunny July afternoon in 2011, Pamela French felt as if life was perfect as she shopped for a gift for her future daughter-in-law.

In this Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 photo, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances, leave the General Relief Society Meeting at the Conference Center on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Frances Monson died early Friday, May 17, 2013, at a hospital in Salt Lake City. She was 85. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.

NEWTOWN BOROUGH -- It had all the glitz and glimmer of a Hollywood premier, complete with a red carpet and ladies wearing long shiny sequined dresses.

Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire that damaged the Church of the Ascension early Monday morning, but on Saturday parishioners were concentrating on rebuilding.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth in a six-part series exploring the many facets of the Montgomery County domestic violence agency Laurel House and the services it provides to the community. Inside Tammy Reid's Villanova home on an early Friday morning in May, there are boxes everywhere. That's nothing unusual. If you set foot in Reid's spacious-yet-homey abode at just about any point since she ...