Larissa Janine Molles

Miss Larissa Janine Molles, 22, of 513 Channing Circle, Concord, died Monday, September 6, 2004, at Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville, NC. Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Friday, September 10, 2004, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel in Kannapolis. Pastors Ray Warren and Ken Jewell will officiate. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Lady's Funeral Home. Born September 17, 1981, in Los Angeles, California, she was a daughter of Brad Eugene Molles and Donna Maria Ramsay Molles. She was a student at East Carolina University and worked as a massage therapist. She was a tri-athlete and enjoyed working with children. She spoke Russian and had served as a missionary in Russia with Teen Mania and also worked extensively with World Vision. She attended Morningstar Church in Charlotte and was a musician and an artist. Larissa has always been full of life and personality, touching lives everywhere and reaching out whenever she saw a need. Her motto was, "I may not be able to change the world, but I can change one person's world." Survivors include her parents, Brad Eugene Molles and Donna Maria Ramsay Molles; a sister, Olga Molles of the home; two brothers, Christopher Eugene Molles and his wife, Lindsey, of Boone and Daniel Josiah Molles of the home and his fianc , Tara Commerford, of Kannapolis; and grandparents, Victor and Cecilia DiVittorio of Fayetteville and Michele Mather of Long Beach, California. Memorials may be sent to World Vision , PO Box 78481, Tacoma, WA 98481-8481, memo: The Russian School Hostage Fund, or online donations may be made by clicking on "Russian Hostage Crisis" . From her earliest childhood, Larissa has burned with a passion for Jesus Christ and to see souls born again. She served Him with all her heart and now lives with Him eternally.