Las Vegas shooting victim, Kelsey Meadows, Taft, California
Kelsey Meadows, 28, of Taft, California, is among concertgoers killed at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas.
Meadows was a substitute teacher at Taft Union High School District since 2012. But Julie Gragg, executive assistant to the superintendent, said that Meadows was more than her job title.
“We’re a very small community,” Gragg said. “Her mother is a longtime employee of ours. Right now we’re trying to concentrate on healing for our faculty and our students.”
Meadows graduated from Taft Union High School in 2007 and earned a bachelor’s degree from Fresno State University.
“Kelsey was smart, compassionate and kind,” Mary Alice Finn, Taft High principal, said in a statement. “She had a sweet spirit and a love for children. Words cannot adequately capture the sorrow felt by her students, colleagues and friends in learning of her passing.”
She leaves behind her mother, Stacy Meadows, who is the information technology manager for the Taft school district; her father, Greg Meadows; her brother Brad Meadows and sister-in-law Jessica Meadows; and an “entire community that loved and respected her,” the statement read.
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