Mary Catherine Hayes, a 2010 New Trier Graduate, passed away Wednesday morning from complications of an illness, according to friends.
Hayes, who was from Winnetka and was a student at Syracuse University, is being remembered by friends, family and professors as a courageous young woman who lit up a room.
“Mary Catherine made people only think about the good about her every day of her life,” Geraldine Clark, a professor at Syracuse University, wrote on Hayes’ Facebook wall. “She was so talented, beautiful, intelligent, kind, generous and brave. She will be one of the models I hold in my heart the rest of my life.”
“We lost a courageous, kind, talented, beautiful, generally badass human being today,” Chloe Miller wrote on her Facebook page.
“Your grace, beauty and laughter were beyond compare,” Spencer Schiele commented on the Facebook page.
The posts can only be seen by those connected to her via Facebook and not by the general public.
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