SEQUIM — Hundreds of balloons will float through the skies over Carrie Blake Park on Sunday following a memorial service for KayDee Campbell, the 13-year-old Sequim Middle School student killed in a July 19 automobile accident in Maple Valley.

Each balloon, marked with a personal message written by guests at the service, will launch skyward in a metaphoric display of the potential many say KayDee showed before her tragically early death.

“My heart is going up with her and to her,” said Ronda Campbell, KayDee’s mother.

The service will be from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday in the Guy Cole Convention Center, 202 N. Blake Ave, Sequim. The public is welcome to attend.

KayDee was a member of the Sequim Pyros, a Little League fastpitch all-star team which earned its way into the state championship tournament and was undefeated in the games leading up to July 19.

Campbell, her boyfriend, Ray Chipman, and KayDee left Snoqualmie after a game on that Saturday afternoon and headed out for a shopping trip and a visit with Campbell’s mother in Auburn.

But they never made it.

The 1995 Oldsmobile Chipman was driving slammed into a utility pole on state Highway 169.

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The rest of this story appears in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News.