I woke up my first day of Fall Break at home to a text message from my long time best friend Nicole. We went to high school together and still remained connected to the school when we went to college. The text message was informing me that an SSA (that’s my high school) girl had died. St. Scholastica Academy is an all-girls Catholic high school and we are very small and very close knit. The school was founded in 1901 and has had many many graduates and most of us remain very close to the school after we graduate. So losing one of our own, even if I didn’t know her was very upsetting. She was in the 8th grade class when I was a senior, which means she was in my Little Sis class. Little Sis Big Sis is a program that the school puts on for the seniors and 8th graders. They assign an 8th grader to each senior to mentor them and care for them as they acclimate themselves to the school. So it was very upsetting to hear that someone from my Little Sis class had died. Too young. And another reason that I was so upset is because my REAL little sister, Lanie, is a senior and was close to the girl and her friends. She was more close to the girl’s friends rather than the girl who died but it still hit very close to home.
To be honest I wasn’t very emotional about it at first. I felt like there was something wrong with me but I couldn’t be SUPER depressed. But I was depressed that my sister was very upset. And here’s what the story was. Apparently, she was coming home from swim practice. She had been fighting with her boyfriend and he was going to be playing in the St. Paul’s football game that night and she wanted to get home and get ready quickly so that she could tell him she was sorry before he got on the field. So she was passing a car in front of her and she misjudged the distance and clipped the back of the car in front of her and spun out of control into the oncoming lane. A car in the other lane t-boned her and she broke her neck and died on impact. The paramedics brought her back to life but she was a vegetable. The next morning (today) she was taken off of life support. Her name was Angelle. And she was very important to her friends and the girls around her at SSA.
This is the news report:
http://www.wwltv.com/news/northshore/St-Scholastica-student-dies-in-Covington-auto-crash-104153879.html
There’s a video that pretty much explains everything.
That night there was a prayer service at the school for her. I went with my sister and Nicole and everyone wore purple because that was her favorite color. It was very sad and very emotional and I got very teary-eyed. My sister was completely beside herself. She was bawling and completely red faced and distorted over this. I cried mostly because she was so sad. The ceremony was very beautiful and it is such a shame and such a loss. 16 is much too young to die.
This was the song they played for her at the prayer service.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM&ob=av3e
After the prayer service I went to dinner with my sister and Nicole and my father at my father’s friend’s new restaurant. The food was free and we ate and drank and spent a lot of time with each other and appreciated being near our family and friends. I really cherished spending that time with them because you never know when they will be gone.
Please keep Angelle Ulfers and her family in your prayers and my sister and her friends as well. Angelle will be sorely missed.
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