It was a celebration of the life of a very important person – a friend to every student. A person who year after year acted as a loving, caring grandma to students young and old out on the playground and in the cafeteria.Cynthia “Meme” Heinrichs, 77, was all but choked up as hundreds of children came together Wednesday to demonstrate their unquenchable love for the volunteer supervisor who gave so much of her heart and soul to so many over the past 18 years at Nile Garden Elementary School.The entire student body gathered on a grassy area in front of the school office following a traditional Halloween parade, standing grade level by grade level until she unexpectedly walked into their midst as they sung their hearts out to her. “I could never have been a teacher,” she quipped, “because I would have had to be strict with the children.