On the morning of Dec. 2, Yvette Velasco got dressed up and flat-ironed her hair.<br />It was an important day: The 27-year-old was going to receive a gold badge officially recognizing her as a San Bernardino County health inspector at a holiday work event.<br />The world now knows what happened: Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, stormed into the gathering, opening fire on Farook's colleagues.<br />Velasco and 13 others were killed in what the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism.<br />One week and a day after the massacre, Velasco's friends and family gathered Thursday for an outdoor funeral, at a spot on a hill chosen by her three older sisters and parents in remembrance of her love of nature.<br />The ceremony marked the start of a grim procession expected to take place throughout Southern California over the next week: about a dozen memorials, funerals and burials for those killed in the attack.
