She "heard the bell and asked her son, 'Oh, maybe somebody died,'" George Acsente, Irimie's pastor at Saints Constantine and Helen Romanian Orthodox Church in Lilburn, Georgia, told USA TODAY.

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She "heard the bell and asked her son, 'Oh, maybe somebody died,'" George Acsente, Irimie's pastor at Saints Constantine and Helen Romanian Orthodox Church in Lilburn, Georgia, told USA TODAY.