This week friends and loved ones recalled Lonna Bartkowiak’s radiant personality as they grieved the “hippie culture” gift shop owner’s passing.

Bartkowiak was one of the 10 killed during a mass shooting in a Boulder King Soopers Monday. She was at the store picking up a prescription.

Mourners sojourned somber-faced to her the store she owned, Umba Love, this past week. They brought with them flowers and candles, constructing a makeshift memorial in the store’s entry on Broadway, just north of Pearl Street.

“In loving memory of one of our brightest lights,” one sign read.

Debora Bryant, 68, and her husband Barry Aaron, 70, visited the memorial site at the King Soopers on Table Mesa Drive. They wrote a poem to place there.

“It’s completely different when you just see something like this on TV,” Aaron said. “We felt like we wanted it to be more real for us, to touch it and be there with others.”

Bryant knew she recognized a picture of Bartkowiak there, but couldn’t place it. When they came downtown and saw Umba — it hit them.

“She was such a dear,” Bryant said. “Every time I went in, she remembered me. That she’s gone is just horrible.”

Bartkowiak owned Umba Love with her sister, Leesah Noble, selling festival wear, yoga clothing and other “hippie culture” items for over a decade. A Los Angeles native, Bartkowiak channeled her passion for travel, music and art into the store.

According to its website, the sisters’ business supports over a dozen vendors and more than 100 local artists.

Susan Williams, executive director of a Mindful Works, said Umba Love was one of the first stores to sell products from her nonprofit, which offers jobs and training to those in recovery from mental illness.

“She sold our goods and was so kind to us,” Williams said. “Years ago, when we first started making our meditation cushions, bags and home goods, they didn’t look as good as they do now. But when we told her what we did, Lonna said ‘I would love to sell your products.’”

Williams said Bartkowiak always treated all of the Mindful Works employees with respect, professionalism and kindness.

“She was so warm and very creative,” Williams said. “She always came out from behind the counter to talk to folks. … Such a loving business, and a loving person.”

Bartkowiak’s brother told the New York Times that she was the oldest of four children and had recently gotten engaged.

Her brother called her “an amazing person” and “a beam of light.”

In a barrage of Facebook posts, friends described her as kind, compassionate, bright, generous, “a free spirit,” “super loved,” “the light of my life” and “a true angel on earth.”

On Wednesday, Williams and a group of Mindful Works employees laid flowers, knelt and cried in front of a picture of Bartkowiak smiling broadly at Umba Love — the way they always remembered her being.

“She was full of blessings,” Williams said, pointing to the sign on the Umba’s window. “Bless it.”