The guns used in the shooting had been legally bought by the gunman's mother, Nancy Lanza.
Nancy Lanza checked off "yes" for financial disputes but "no" for parenting disputes, records show.
Louise Tambascio said Nancy Lanza worked in charities for people with AIDS, and said she was extremely generous.
Despite whatever problems Nancy Lanza might have been facing behind closed doors, on the outside she kept a cheerful face.
Nancy Lanza had retired or was on a break from her career, but she was not a teacher, the friend said.
That could be what Nancy Lanza thought as she amassed the arsenal her son Adam would use to commit his horrific crime in Newtown.
Nancy Lanza had earlier worked in finance in Boston and Connecticut, said a friend who knew her well but who didn't want her name published.
Neighbor Gina McDade said Nancy Lanza was a "stay-at-home mom" and not a teacher or part-time employee of Sandy Hook Elementary, as some media reports stated.
Louise saw Nancy Lanza take out her checkbook and write checks to anyone who told her they were going through a rough time and needed money.
Dan Holmes, who owns a local landscaping business, said Nancy Lanza was a gun collector, and that she showed off a rifle she had recently purchased.
The shooter's mother, Nancy Lanza, bought the Bushmaster firearm two years ago at Riverview Gun Sales, according to Detective Matthew Carl of the East Windsor Police Department.
Nancy Lanza was a giving, quiet, reserved person who grew up on a farm in New Hampshire with three siblings in a self-reliant family, Marsha Lanza said.
Investigators found articles on other shootings and a holiday card containing a check made out to Adam Lanza for the purchase of a firearm, authored by his mother, Nancy Lanza.
Also buried Thursday, at an undisclosed location, was Nancy Lanza, the shooter's mother, said Donald Briggs, a friend of the family who grew up with her in Kingston, New Hampshire.
Some neighbors and relatives remembered Nancy Lanza, the 52-year-old mother of the suspected gunman behind one of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, as a retiring person who largely kept to herself.
Nancy Lanza's relatives say they share the nation's grief and struggle "to comprehend the tremendous loss that we all share, " according to a statement from James Champion, who is a police officer and brother to Nancy Lanza.
Jim McDade, 59, who lives a few houses away from Nancy Lanza, said that his daughter Maura, 21, and son James Patrick, 24, would take the school bus on the corner with Adam and Ryan when they were children.
Nancy Jean Lanza sued Peter John Lanza for divorce on November 24, 2008 -- three days before Thanksgiving, Connecticut court records show.
While Adam's father Peter Lanza, a tax director and vice president for GE Energy Financial Services, was outgoing, Nancy could be "unsociable, " Mary Ann Lanza said.
When Nancy took her older son, 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, to see a concert in New Orleans, Adam didn't join them.
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