AKRON, Ohio — A line of school buses were parked outside Rhoden Memorial Home for funeral services held for school bus driver Laura Zborowski, who was killed last week when she was run over by her school bus at Middlebury Academy, WOIO reports.
The program for the service called Zborowski a kind-hearted person, a mother and recent breast cancer survivor, and said that “she died as she lived, putting the needs of others before her own,” according to WOIO.
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Drivers attend funeral for Ohio bus driver who died saving student
A line of school buses were parked outside funeral services held for school bus driver Laura Zborowski, who was killed last week when she was run over by her school bus at Middlebury Academy in Akron. The program for the service said that Zborowski “died as she lived, putting the needs of others before her own.”
September 22, 2014
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