Obituaries

Jenifer Elizabeth Friend

Jenifer Elizabeth Friend, 39, of Blue Springs, Missouri, died Jan. 30.

Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. March 2 at Speaks Suburban Chapel, 18020 E. 39th St., in Independence, Missouri. A memorial service will follow Saturday at 2 p.m., March 3, at Parkview Community of Christ, 801 S.W. 19th St. in Blue Springs.

Jenifer was a new student at the University of Central Missouri working in the literacy program to earn a Master’s of Science in Education.

She also had worked as a seventh-grade special education teacher at South Middle School in Grain Valley, Missouri the past two years.

Jenifer battled Addison’s disease. She cared for her mother with MS and her brother with cerebral palsy. She moved in with them while taking on a full-time job as a teacher and to take care of her grandmother while she suffered from dementia.

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