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- Alison Parker was loved by everyone who knew her. Born in Annapolis, MD, Alison grew up in Collinsville, Virginia and graduated from Martinsville High School in 2009. Her many accomplishments included Piedmont District Swimmer of the Year award and multiple academic awards. As a student at the Piedmont Governors School for Math, Science and Technology, she was a member of the award winning robotics team. Alison was a gymnast, a beautiful dancer, and a badass whitewater kayaker.
At James Madison University School of Media Arts and Design she was a news editor at the Breeze, a member of Alpha Phi Sorority, and was a tutor of freshmen calculus students. Before she even had her diploma in hand in 2012, she got got a job offer and joined the news team at WCTI12 in North Carolina as the Jacksonville bureau chief, covering Camp Lejeune and the surrounding area, where she relished the tough schedule and hard news.
Alison was recruited to return to WDBJ7 in Roanoke as the Mornin' Reporter in 2014, and she greeted viewers each weekday morning with a smile and her bubbly personality, hoping to make their day a little brighter. She loved her job and had such a bright future ahead in the field of journalism, but still found time to support her community.
Alison posthumously won two Emmys and two Edward R. Murrow awards for her outstanding work in journalism. As Steve Capus, CBS Evening News producer said at her memorial, "She was going to be with us one day".
But most of all, Alison lived life to the fullest in her short time on earth. - Gustav Hinrichs was born on 10 December 1850 in Grabow, Germany. He was a composer, known for The Phantom of the Opera (1925). He died on 26 March 1942 in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA.
- Arthur Stringer was born on 26 February 1874 in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. He was a writer, known for Womanhandled (1925), The Wilderness Woman (1926) and The Lady Fights Back (1937). He was married to Margaret Arbuthnot Stringer and Jobyna Howland. He died on 14 September 1950 in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA.
- Adam Ward was born on 10 May 1988 in Salem, Virginia, USA. He died on 26 August 2015 in Smith Mountain Lake, near Moneta, Virginia, USA.
- Kate Jordan was born on 10 December 1862 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. She was a writer, known for Castles in the Air (1919), In Search of a Thrill (1923) and The Next Corner (1924). She was married to Frederick M. Vermilye. She died on 20 June 1926 in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA.