Hundreds Attend Memorial Service For CDC Worker Found Dead

Hundreds gathered over the weekend to remember Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist Timothy Cunningham, who was a graduate of both Morehouse College and Harvard University.

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More than 500 people attended the memorial service of an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention whose body was found in an Atlanta river.

News outlets report the service for 35-year-old Timothy Cunningham was Saturday at a Morehouse College chapel.

Hundreds gathered over the weekend to remember Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist Timothy Cunningham, who was a graduate of both Morehouse College and Harvard University.
Capt. Marcella Law with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Timothy Cunningham felt his job was a calling to change lives. (James Gathany/CDC via Wikimedia Commons)

His parents, Terrell and Tia Cunningham, were among those gathered to remember the graduate of both Morehouse and Harvard University.