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-- Arizona will pay tribute Friday to a federal judge killed in a shooting rampage last weekend that left five others dead.
The funeral service for U.S. District Judge John Roll, 63, will be held at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Tucson.
Roll's service comes a day after a memorial was held for the youngest victim of the mass shooting, 9-year-old Christina Green.
Along with the six people killed, at least a dozen others were wounded in the mass shooting Saturday during a meet-and-greet event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a supermarket parking lot.
Roll was a friend of Giffords and had come to the political event after attending Mass, his friends said.
President Barack Obama described Roll "as the hardest-working judge within the Ninth Circuit" during a speech Wednesday night at a public memorial at the University of Arizona.
"Judge John Roll served our legal system for nearly 40 years," Obama said. "A graduate of this university and its law school, Judge Roll was recommended for the federal bench by John McCain 20 years ago appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and rose to become Arizona's chief federal judge.
Tucson resident Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is facing federal charges in the attack.
Police say Loughner targeted Giffords, and had complained about the lawmaker for years after apparently getting a response he didn't like to a question he asked her at a 2007 event.
The shooting set off a political firestorm across the country, with pundits charging that extreme partisan politics played a role in the mass killing.
On Thursday, family, friends, classmates and hundreds of mourners filled St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Tucson for a funeral service for Christina.
All of them passed under a giant American flag that was recovered in the aftermath of the terror attacks in New York on September 11, 2001 -- the day Christina was born.
Dozens of mourners paid their respects by standing outside the church, which was was filled to capacity.
Obama noted Wednesday that Christina was just beginning to discover the political system -- something that she saw "through the eyes of a child."
"I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it. I want America to be as good as she imagined it," Obama said. "All of us -- we should do everything we can do to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations."
Christina's parents say they're just trying to get through it.
"It's minute-by-minute, day-by-day. We're just taking it slow. We're hanging in there, we're trying to be strong. We have to be strong. Our country's being strong, our community is being strong for us, so we will, you know, get through this with our faith and our friends and our family," mother Roxanna Green told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night.
Most of the mourners arriving for Christina's funeral service Thursday paused to look up at the huge flag that rippled between the extended ladders of two fire trucks outside the church. The banner, which has been patched with flags recovered from other disasters, was sent by the New York Says Thank You Foundation.
The gesture is precious to the Green family.
"We both let out a gasp of emotion, because, you know, that meant a lot to us," Christina's father, John Green, said. "And for them to extend that courtesy to our daughter ... again, it's just another one of those things that will help for us. We feel like the country won't forget her."