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MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- A assemblage is supporting each different done heartbreak aft an El Capitan High School elder tragically died pursuing a skiing mishap successful December.
18-year-old Violette Walker died connected January 2, conscionable months distant from her precocious schoolhouse graduation.
But adjacent arsenic her loved ones mourn her, they accidental they're determined to guarantee her bequest lives on.
On Sunday, astir 1,000 radical attended Violette's Celebration of Life service. They watched a slideshow that featured her favourite songs, alongside photos of her passim her beingness -- reminding them that not agelong ago, she was conscionable a small girl.
But adjacent though her beingness was short, those who knew Violette accidental she didn't discarded it.
"She accomplished truthful galore things astatine specified a young age," said Dillon Guillen, 1 of Violette's teachers.
At her precocious school, Violette was 1 of the apical students successful her class. She was besides taking classes astatine Merced College, wherever her household says she had already earned 2 degrees.
But her loved ones say, arsenic agleam arsenic she was, it paled successful examination to her compassion.
"Violette was ever idiosyncratic who was ace benignant and selfless, and I deliberation that's a large mode to retrieve her by," said Shaminka Elwin, a person of Violette's.
From her enactment helping charities, to her assemblage services successful Girl Scouts, to her emotion and attraction for animals successful request -- Friends and household said she gave everything she had, adjacent aft she was gone, arsenic an organ donor.
"Because of Violette, 5 radical who person ne'er met her person had their lives changed due to the fact that of her," said Shawn Luce, a adjacent person of the Walker family.
Luce has worked alongside Violette's father, Merced City Fire Captain Mark Walker, for implicit 20 years. He says not lone has Violette changed lives, but she has besides walked successful her father's footsteps by redeeming lives.
During Violette's memorial, Luce presented plaques to her parents successful grant of her redeeming those lives. Including a 6-year-old lad who present has a caller heartbeat and a caller accidental astatine beingness due to the fact that of her.
"To me, the astir hard portion of the programme was to contiguous those plaques that commemorated the lives that she saved. But however due it is for what she did successful her life," Luce said.
He says adjacent now, Violette's bequest continues to unrecorded on, not lone successful the lives she's saved, but successful the radical she's inspired.
"How large it is to spot a assemblage travel unneurotic successful thing similar this. And arsenic tragic arsenic it is, arsenic pugnacious arsenic it tin be, we admit the airy that she is to truthful galore people," helium said.
Luce says he's already seen her reflection successful the radical she knew. Many of them taking notes from their friend, saying from present connected they privation to unrecorded similar Violette.
"Losing idiosyncratic similar that... I deliberation that her representation being honored is decidedly the champion mode for her representation to unrecorded on," Elwin said.
Violette's household wanted to grant her bequest by supporting the causes she cared truthful overmuch about. In doing so, they are asking that you see getting progressive oregon donating to 1 oregon respective of the organizations listed below:
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