After a three-plus year battle with breast cancer, Benjamin Russell’s assistant principal Kelli Kelly died Sunday but not without putting up a heckuva fight.
“She has been battling cancer for years and is the strongest woman I have ever met,” BRHS principal Anthony Wilkinson said. “Because most people would have given up but she fought until the very end.”
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