Mom who died of COVID 'tried to help as many kids as she could'

The radical who loved Monica Meyer, an simple schoolhouse teacher’s adjunct and parent of 4 children, won’t person galore photographs to retrieve her by. She was ever the 1 who held the camera.

The Kentucky pistillate enactment others first, her ex-husband Chris Meyer said Thursday.

“The sparkle she brought retired successful kids, you conscionable saw it,” Meyer said. "She tried to interaction arsenic galore radical arsenic she could. Help arsenic galore kids arsenic she could."

Monica Meyer died Monday night, soon aft being diagnosed with COVID-19. Chris Meyer had spoken to her lone a fewer hours beforehand.

“She went to bed,” helium said. “If it’s a blessing of immoderate kind, she conscionable didn’t aftermath up.”

He and their 4 children person nary uncertainty that she touched thousands of lives during her clip with them. The Meyers were foster parents, and Monica was well-known for the emotion she showed her students astatine Southern Elementary School.

“I'm really a preschool teacher,” said Madison Meyer, the couple’s 21-year-old daughter. “I deliberation she taught maine however to emotion different people. How to look past our differences."

The Meyers household hopes that her tone — a airy successful the schoolhouse and successful their assemblage — volition animate others to unrecorded with emotion and see fostering for themselves.

Chris created a GoFundMe to assistance with expenses successful the aftermath of her death.

This communicative was primitively published by Jake Ryle astatine WCPO.