March 21, 2018 4:55 pm
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(Post-Record file photo) Washougal choir teacher Jen Mahorney (second from right, back row) is pictured here in 2012 with several Washougal High School band and choir students who had been accepted into the annual National Association for Music Educator's All-Northwest/All-State honor groups. Students and staff in Washougal schools are mourning Mahorney this week. The choir teacher was found dead by the Skamania County Sheriff's Office during a welfare check on Tuesday, March 20. Pictured here are (back row, left to right): WHS band teacher Kelly Ritter, Riley Miller, Austin Smith-Brown, Eloysius Leele, Zoe West, Mahorney and Nick Stevens. Front row, left to right: Crystal Saltmarsh, Sydney Niemi and Allix Fisher.
Jemtegaard Middle School students created art displays in honor of choir teacher Jennifer Mahorney, after hearing about her death on Wednesday, March 21.
In the midst of the chaos called “growing up,” teenagers at Washougal High School could always find solitude and safety inside teacher Jennifer Mahorney’s choir room.
Before safe spaces were cool, Mahorney’s classroom was a safe place where students from all walks of life could find a guaranteed spot on the couch for themselves, Kelly Ritter, Washougal band teacher, says.
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