At a memorial service held Friday in Salem, the family of Rob DeCesare, who was killed in a shooting at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua last weekend, said he died protecting his family, putting himself between the gunman and his wife and daughter.

“My dad saved my life,” said his daughter Makayla DeCesare. “But so much more than that: He set me up for a life full of integrity and community, which is a life worth living.”

Steven DeCesare said his dad’s final moments illustrated who his father was at his core.

“If he was given a list of any way [his death] could have happened, saving his family would have been his top pick by a landslide,” he said.

Family, friends and pickleball teammates shared stories of a man they said possessed a deep love for his family, a dreamer’s heart, a t

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