(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Friends and co-workers of a west suburban kindergarten teacher who died March 1 are honoring her memory and raising money to help her son who is only four months old.
“You know, it really does check all the boxes of tragic,” says Joe Duffy.
He’s the brother of Mary Elizabeth Jeske, who died at age 39 after she was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Duffy says his sister met her soulmate and got married two years ago. Their son Harry was born in November.
“And she was diagnosed Feb. 7, and three weeks later she was dead,” the sibling said.
Now, there’s a Go Fund Me page to help pay for her son’s education.
And at the Seventh Avenue Elementary School in La Grange, where Jeske taught kindergarten, teachers and staff are looking for an artist to help design a memorial stained glass window for the classroom that was hers for 17 years.
Teacher Celine Hill said the window will be about 3-feet-by-5-feet and include images of some of the things Jeske loved: music notes, a stuffed bear and the sun wearing sunglasses.
Because, Hill says, Mary Elizabeth Jeske was “all about sunshine.”
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