picture from People magazine
Information from Huffington post, People, obituary, ctpost,
Lauren was known for her exuberance, her love of family and of children, her friendliness, kindness and loyalty, and her ever-present smile. "If she didn't have a smile on her face, she was trying to make someone else feel like smiling," a longtime friend said. Lauren was a graduate of Danbury High School, where her greatest joys were singing and dancing in the yearly musical and teaching in the school-based nursery school. She graduated from the University of Connecticut at Storrs in 2004 with a degree in English and psychology, and she earned a master's degree in elementary education from the University of Bridgeport. She did her yearlong teaching internship at Robert Avenue School, some of it in the same classroom where she had been a first-grader. She did her student teaching at John Pettibone School in New Milford, and later worked as a substitute teacher in Danbury, New Milford and Newtown. She was hired as a permanent substitute teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary only weeks before her death. From her college years on she worked in catering at Fox Hill Inn in Brookfield, and the past few years she also worked at the Starbucks coffee shop in Danbury. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newstimes/obituary.aspx?pid=161797784#sthash.fQeBessS.dpuf
Friends describe her as an angel. Always wanted to be a teacher since she was little. Loved the students..."her kids". Had a cat named Laila. Liked to take the train to Manhattan to see Broadway shows. Last year of her life was the happiest.
On November 1st, I will drink a Starbucks coffee in Lauren Rousseau's memory.
No comments:
Post a Comment