Saxberg said she'd heard from other friends after she talked to Andel that she'd been getting harassing text messages from some girls. "She never liked people knowing when she was upset," she said. It seemed Andel was doing well, but it was often hard to tell, she said. She'd spoken with Andel early in the week, and they planned to hang out this weekend. Saxberg said Andel told her about untrue rumors that'd been swirling about her for months, but she was also having a tough time taking the death of Shyler Harr, a close friend who'd died Sept. "It's channeling that frustration toward something good."
"People are looking for things to do," Edland said. Andel's family wants to donate the proceeds to anti-bullying programs. Rebecca Edland, owner of T and Signs Designs in Cooperstown, said she is working on a memorial T-shirt honoring the 16-year-old. A request to speak with relatives passed along via the funeral home was declined Friday. She was a musical girl who played piano, sang in the choir and played in the school band, a basketball player who loved to hunt and shoot photos and a Sunday school teacher at Trinity Lutheran Church, her family wrote in her obituary. "The entire region is in shock."Įven students from other area schools were stung by the loss, with grief counselors dispatched to some of them, Flatland said.įlatland said Andel was a bright and articulate teen, a Griggs County Central sophomore who had joined the football team this year on a lark and participated in a mock accident to raise safety awareness this fall. "We're devastated," he said of Cooperstown, a city of 1,200 roughly 50 miles north of Valley City, N.D.
As heart-wrenching condolences and recrimination spilled freely on the website Facebook, Cooperstown kept its grief closer to the vest as several residents declined to speak publicly about the suicide.ĭespite the reticence to talk in the close-knit town, the pain was felt broadly, said Jon Flatland, owner of the local newspaper, the Griggs County Courier.
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