Students return to unusual quiet 
at Oconomowoc High School
They’re encouraged to attend visitation with parents Wednesday

By EMILY BULTMAN - GM Today Staff 

April 29, 2008

Flowers, cards, photographs, poems and more were lined up outside Oconomowoc High School on Monday as students mourned the death of Jennifer Bukosky, one of the school’s associate principals. A special visitation time for students will be held Wednesday at Pagenkopf Funeral Home. 

OCONOMOWOC - 
The halls of Oconomowoc High School were unusually quiet Monday, as students and staff went through their first day of school without Associate Principal Jennifer Bukosky.

Bukosky, her unborn daughter and her 10-year-old daughter, Courtney Bella, were killed Friday in a two-car crash at Summit Avenue and Pabst Road. Bella was a fourth-grader at Summit Elementary School.

"When I first walked into school, I noticed a change immediately, as the halls were eerily quiet. People were talking, but in low whispers. This lasted half the day until it started to feel more comfortable," said OHS sophomore Haley Olsen-Hodges, a student in Bukosky’s composition class last year. "Many times throughout the day, I would start crying, and students that I didn’t even know would give me a hug."

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The memorial space outside the administrator’s office was lined with hundreds of colorful flowers and messages of sorrow.

 

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Emily Bultman can be reached at ebultman@conleynet.com

This story appeared in The Freeman on April 29, 2008.