Mother of four, wife and local vet assistant remembered after tragic crash

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- A increasing memorial sits connected Fargo and 13th Avenue successful Hanford.

It's wherever a deadly clang took the beingness of 43-year-old Kellie Rivera conscionable aft midnight connected Sunday.

The household was excessively heartbroken to spell connected camera but said Kelly was an astonishing idiosyncratic who loved her household and 4 children.

She worked arsenic a section vet adjunct and was ever benignant and positive.

Those adjacent to her accidental to cognize her was to emotion her.

"She was precise overmuch loved astatine our office," says Paula Fausett, the manager of the Vet Hospital wherever Kellie worked.

Paula continues, "We cognize that her household meant everything to her. She was similar the cheerleader for their children, taking them to band, creation and Boy Scouts and precise overmuch progressive successful her church."

The California Highway Patrol says Kellie was driving northbound connected 13th Avenue erstwhile she entered the intersection aft making a afloat halt astatine the four-way halt connected Fargo.

CHP says that's erstwhile 35-year-old Philip Andrew Macias Chavez failed to stop.

They accidental helium was speeding and judge helium was driving nether the influence.

"He has a anterior DUI conviction, which makes this a execution case. So we volition beryllium recommending execution charges to the Kings County District Attorney's Office, and hopefully, with their support, we volition file," says CHP Officer Kyle Gilmer.

Macias Chavez sustained large injuries and was taken to the hospital.

Kellie died astatine the scene, leaving an emptiness successful the lives of many. Now, alternatively of looking guardant to Christmas, her household has to program a funeral.

In a statement, Kellie's household says, "She was an astonishing woman and adjacent amended mother. She loved her husband... was the caput cheerleader for her kids and she loved them fiercely."

Her hubby of astir 20 years says, "The lone bid disposable is knowing she was welcomed by Jesus into heaven."

The household is asking for privateness during this hard time.

If you would similar to help, the Peace Officers Research Association of California is collecting donations and determination is simply a GoFundMe leafage available.