September 01, 2015
PHOTO COURTESY/COLETTE DAVIS/for PhillyVoice
Janiya Castleberry, left, and her teacher Allison McGinnis died days apart after being injured in separate car accidents.
South Jersey will remember student Janiya Castleberry and teacher Allison McGinnis at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The vigil is set for McDowell Field at the Helen Fort/Newcomb Middle School in Pemberton, where McGinnis taught and Castleberry was a rising eighth-grader.
Castleberry, 13, died Aug. 20 following a car accident earlier in the month in Southampton.
The first non-family member to see the student while she was hospitalized was McGinnis, 29, who had taught Castleberry in the Pemberton schools.
McGinnis, who went to her student’s funeral along with a host of teachers, died in Southampton on Aug. 27 while running along Route 206 in preparation for a foot race in Hawaii.
McGinnis was hit by a pickup truck driven by Patrick Miller, 28, of New Hanover. David Eldridge, 31, of Wrightstown, was a passenger.
Eldridge died in the incident and Miller was transported to a trauma center with severe injuries. The incident, which closed Route 206 for hours, is under investigation.
