Remembering Rebecca

Rebecca Townsend embraces the joy of life.

Rebecca Townsend was 17 years old and a high school graduate, who was starting college at Notre Dame in the fall. At least, the latter was the plan. Also, in her plans was a bucket list that she had written as an assignment in her sophomore year in high school. She had told her future self that she had three wishes: to travel to Spain, to kiss in the rain, and to save someone's life.

Little did she know what fate had in store for her. She was a teen with a big heart. She had founded a chapter of a girls' charity, She's The First, which raises money to send girls from low-income countries to college, at her school, Immaculate High School. She was full of joy and life. By the way, she had fulfilled two of her wishes before graduation. She had traveled to Spain with her family and she had kissed her boyfriend in the rain. There was one wish left.



On the evening of July 2, Rebecca went with some friends to watch the fireworks. The display ended at 9 PM, so she was crossing the street with her friend Ben Arne, also 17, when they were hit by a car. Rebecca died at the scene, but Ben survived with serious injuries. After he was released by the hospital, he met with Rebecca's family and told them that she had saved his life by pushing him away from the car. Sister, Victoria Townsend, said, "He said, 'The last thing I remember is Rebecca pushing me and telling me to hurry up.'"

At that point, the family hadn't yet found the bucket list. It was when her cousins had gathered together and were remembering Rebecca's life that they found the bucket list. They then realized that Rebecca had fulfilled the last wish on her bucket list just before she died. Victoria said, "It was a little sign that she was OK."

With that discovery and their knowledge of how Rebecca had lived her life, it was her family's wish to do something to honor her. Victoria said, "She was just full of love and full of kindness and compassion and charity." The family set up a FACEBOOK PAGE in her honor with the purpose of "remember[ing] Rebecca by going out and doing something that matters," said one of Rebecca's cousins, Rachel Hofstetter.

Paying it forward at McDonald's for Rebecca.

And so many have responded, from paying for someone else's yoga session to paying it forward at a local Starbucks to setting up a blood drive in her honor, so many have participated. The responses have become a living memorial to Rebecca Townsend and her zest and compassion for others. As Robin Hofstetter says, "The best thing we can take out of the story, and really the most important part of it, is Rebecca was full of love, and we have so many opportunities to show this love."

A blood donor for Rebecca.

Thanks to this article from Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/rebecca-bucket-list#.ptGE9vAVL; and this article from the NewsTimes: http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Girl-killed-when-struck-by-car-in-Danbury-6364851.php.

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