Nancy Lanza Memorial Service

A memorial service is to be held for the mother of the crazed Newtown school shooter who gunned down 20 children and six teachers six months ago.

Friends and family have been invited to the service to remember Nancy Lanza, who was the first victim of her son Adam before he went on a killing spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

The service will be held in Kingston, New Hampshire, where she grew up and where many of her family still live.

Family members believe the six months since the deadly shooting is respectful enough time to stage the memorial.

Her ex-husband Peter and older son Ryan are expected to attend.

A private service attended by Lanza's family was held on December 20 at an undisclosed location as they came to terms with her 20-year-old son's mass murder.

Lanza was buried at an undisclosed location.

Nancy, a stay-at-home mom, grew up in the New Hampshire town and graduated from Sanborn Regional High School.

She also attended the University of New Hampshire, worked at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston until 1992, the year Adam was born.

Lanza left Kingston in 1998 and moved to Newtown with her family, which included Adam, who was then six, and his older brother Ryan.

She later divorced from her husband Peter.

Lanza had two brothers, James and Donald Champion, and a sister, Carol Gould.

James Champion is a retired Kingston police captain who now works part time for the department.

The investigation into the shooting is still being carried out in Connecticut and will include Nancy's decision to keep a mini arsenal of guns at her $1.5m home.

She was found shot in the head at her home before Lanza drove the short distance to his former elementary school and blasted his way through security gates to carry out one of the worst massacres the U.S. has seen.

Toxicology tests have revealed that Adam Lanza had no alcohol or drugs in his body when he went on the rampage.

State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky has said he expects a final report on the state police investigation into the shooting to be released by the end of June.

In April it emerged that Lanza had been beaten and taunted by his fellow classmates while he was a student at Sandy Hook Elementary, and his mother had considered filing a lawsuit against the school.

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