(From left to right) Michael Lewis, Dixie Lewis, Tabitha Soren.Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
The Pomona College freshman was killed alongside Ross Schultz, 20, in a head-on car collision near Truckee, California, on Tuesday, according to her family.
“We loved her so much and are in a kind of pain none of us has experienced,” Lewis said in a statement to news outletBerkeleyside. “She loved Ross, with whom she died. She loved to live and our hearts are so broken they can’t find the words to describe the feeling. Her mother, Tabitha, and I, and her brother Walker and sister Quinn are going to find ways for her memory to live in her absence.”
In a statement to theSan Francisco Chronicle, Soren called Dixie “a fighter — and not just for herself but for everyone.”
“She had a fire in her that people could feel when she walked in the room,” Soren wrote in an email to the publication. “She used her intensity to bring up everyone around her and she tried so hard at everything she did. When she showed up, she was going to show up 150%.”
Michael Lewis and Tabitha Soren with their family in 2015.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
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A 2015 Freightliner truck traveling the opposite direction collided with the sedan head-on.
Dixie and Schultz were pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver of the truck, a 45-year-old man from Nevada, suffered minor injuries.
Schultz’s aunt, Locke Schultz Jaeger, told theChroniclethat said the pair — who met while attending Berkley High School together — were in the Lake Tahoe area for vacation.
“Ross loved his friends and he loved his family and, boy, did he love Dixie, who died with him.” she said. “They were funny, they were charming, and they were both very smart. They were kind and they had friendships and relationships that were the deepest and most incredible bond.”
source: people.com
