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Submitted: 4/22/24 • Approved: 4/29/24 • Last Updated: 5/2/24 • R1529461-G0-S3
Feb 19, 1985 - Mar 22, 2004
*Obituary
MAYFLOWER - Michelle Rae Short, 19, of Mayflower, departed this life Monday, March 22, 2004, as a result of injuries sustained in an auto accident. She was a freshman at the University of Central Arkansas and a proud member of the UCA Sugar Bears softball team. She was a graduate of Mayflower High School, where she was a member of the volleyball and softball teams. She also played with the Gators tournament softball team.
She will be missed by all who came in contact with her.
She is survived by a loving family including her parents, Kevin F. and Kerry L. Short of Mayflower; grandparents, Mike and Lynn Maynard of Benton, Louie Short of Mayflower, Betty Bellinger of Mayflower; aunts and uncles, John and Becky Todoroff of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Jay and Leslie Poe of Benton, Leigh and Robert Guynes of Little Rock, David and Donna Binz of Mayflower, David and Sherrie Short of Vilonia, Keith and Terri Short of Little Rock, Vernon Short of Little Rock; and 15 cousins.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 26, 2004, at Crystal Hill Baptist Church in Little Rock with burial in Crystal Hill Cemetery. Arrangements are by Roller-McNutt Funeral Home, Conway, AR
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the University of Central Arkansas Michelle Short Scholarship Fund, c/o Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, P.O. Box 5004, Conway, Ark., 72035.
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ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE - STUDENT KNOWN FOR GENEROSITY MAKES GIFTS EVEN AFTER FATAL WRECK
A University of Central Arkansas freshman died Monday after her car struck a concrete wall on Interstate 40 on Sunday afternoon.
Michelle R. Short, 19, was driving west on I-40 in North Little Rock about 4:30 p.m. Sunday when her 1990 Honda Accord hit the wall, skidded off the road and overturned, according to an Arkansas State Police report.
Short, who graduated from Mayflower High School and played on the UCA softball team, was taken from the accident to Baptist Health Medical Center, where she died a day later in Little Rock.
Short earned a walk-on spot on the UCA team last fall, her grandfather, Mike Maynard, said.
She had been playing softball since elementary school. Catcher was her preferred position.
"She just became a baseball and softball addict," Maynard said. "When she was behind the plate, the plate belonged to her."
Sunday's car crash severed Short's spinal cord, her grandfather said.
The injury left her brain dead but allowed doctors to recover many of her vital organs for donation.
The young woman relatives described as exceptionally generous had declared her interest in being an organ donor, they said.
As a child she often wanted to buy for the needy, they said.
"She would say, ‘Grandpa, can we get a cup of coffee for that man?'" Maynard said.
"She was a very giving child, and she's still giving to other people even though she's not here."
This article was published on page 17 of the Thursday, March 25, 2004 edition in the Arkansas section.
Contributed on 4/22/24 by eagle12953
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