KANSAS CITY, KAN. ? Ambulances, fire engines and other vehicles carrying emergency medical workers from around the country made up a funeral procession Thursday after the service for a paramedic and emergency medical technician shot to death last weekend.

Katherine Malone, 30, and Tye Brown, 31, who worked together and were dating, were found dead Saturday at their Metropolitan Ambulance Service Trust station in Edwardsville, Kan. Police said they were shot after returning from a medical run, ambushed by Malone’s former husband, Matthew Bass.

Bass, 37, of Mission, was charged with first-degree murder hours before he took his own life in Lee’s Summit, Mo.

Malone had filed for protection from Bass in three counties and told police that she feared for her life. She filed for divorce in July and later began dating Brown.

After the service at the Open Door Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kan., the funeral procession, several miles long, made its way to Leavenworth National Cemetery. Brown, a sergeant in the Kansas National Guard, was buried there. Malone will be buried this weekend in her home state of Indiana.

As flag-draped coffins were carried from the church, uniformed emergency workers stood at attention while air ambulances flew overhead. Emergency crews from nearby units took over duties in the area cover by the Metropolitan Ambulance Services Trust so all its employees could attend.

Harold Schaitberger, general president of the International Association of Firefighters, gave the eulogy.

“If we are rewarded for our good deeds on this earth, surely Tye and Kathy will want for nothing in the eternity of their new home in heaven,” he told the nearly 1,000 mourners.

Schaitberger said they should be remembered for how they lived, not how they died.

“The true sum of their lives was their choice to serve others and care for humankind,” he said. “They both made a personal and professional decision to spend their lives tending to those truly in need.”

Malone’s mother, Mary Jane Malone, said that after the divorce her daughter considered moving back to Indiana to be near her family, but decided to stay in Kansas with the support of her co-workers.

Malone spent years in foster care before being adopted at age 13, her mother said, but she never let a childhood without a permanent family weigh her down as she went on to college and trained as a paramedic.

Brown, father of a 7-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son, had served with the National Guard in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Germany.

The Metropolitan Ambulance Service Trust said memorial funds have been established to benefit Brown’s children and members of Malone’s family.