PORT TOWNSEND — A memorial service for Blue Heron Middle School teacher Jan S. Wheeland, who was killed in a car crash Monday, is scheduled for 2 p.m. today in the school’s gymnasium.
Wheeland died Monday afternoon on Interstate 5 south of Olympia. State Patrol investigators are checking details of the crash.
Principal Amy Fields said students are preparing posters with personalized messages to decorate the walls during the program to memorialize Wheeland, 50, an arts and technology instructor.
The sting of the tragic loss has worn off, but mourning continues at the school, Fields said.
Wheeland was in her first year of teaching in Port Townsend and had contact with about one-third of all students at the school.
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.