‘She was a gift’: Community mourns sudden loss of Pennsylvania mother, teacher

MALVERN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Nearly per week after giving start to her second son, a beloved instructor, pal and spouse unexpectedly handed away on Monday, leaving communities throughout the Delaware Valley in disbelief.

Particularly her work household at Charlestown Elementary Faculty in Malvern the place Jennifer Krasna of Newtown, Bucks County, was a first-grade instructor.

“Our staff simply feels empty, a little bit gap,” mentioned fellow first-grade lecturers Cara Dore Donna Gronwaldt.

Particulars about precisely what occurred have not been launched, however the 30-year-old was beloved and adored by everybody who knew her.

“Simply seeing her stroll down the hallway, and simply all the time smiling and all the time taking the time to really feel such as you had been an important individual on the planet in that second. Asking about our children, our households, little tiny issues that you simply would not assume anybody would bear in mind made you’re feeling so particular,” mentioned Jessica Shock, a fifth-grade instructor.

Chris Pickell, the principal at Charlestown Elementary, echoed that sentiment.

“Jenn was wonderful. She had this particular glow about her whenever you had been in her presence. She introduced out the perfect in you. She all the time had a smile on her face. Within the final two days, I obtained calls from mother and father who had been right here years in the past, now in Florida reaching out, sending condolences. The variety of emails. In all places I’ve gone, mother and father are stopping me saying, ‘so sorry to your loss,” and that ‘Jenn was the perfect instructor for our child,’” he mentioned.

Her finest pal arrange a GoFundMe web page that greater than tripled its objective in at some point.

The help for her husband Jesse and their two younger boys is actually palpable.

“This week particularly is tough and we have not skilled this, taking a minute at a time. I can solely think about that as time passes, it could change into simpler for a few of us because it’s changing into tougher for Jesse and his sons. Holidays and each first vacation can be gut-wrenching,” mentioned Chris Vogt, a third-grade instructor.

“I am grateful to have recognized her and the impression that she has is clearly going to be felt for a few years and I simply hope that her household is aware of that she was a present and we had been grateful that they shared her with us within the time that she was right here,” mentioned Jamie Himmelberger, a literacy specialist.