BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Michelle was the homecoming queen who loved sports. Jessica was the honors student who wanted to be a nurse. Ryan Leigh was the cheerleader who collected coats for needy kids.

        The three Bowling Green State University students and their three classmates who were killed in Boone County, Ky., coming home from a spring break trip touched many lives, friends said at a campus memorial service Tuesday night.

        “It took only one second to be around them to fall in love with them,” said Susan Baughman, who shared a room with five of the victims. “When I think about the memories we shared, I could go on forever.”

        She would have been with them on the trip to Florida but instead stayed home for her sister's wedding shower.

        “I know they were handpicked by God, because the heavens needed six beautiful angels,” Susan, of Strongsville, said through tears.

        The university, with 19,000 students, has been shaken by the deaths of Jessica Hedlund, of Perrysburg; Andrea Bakker, of Strongsville; Sara Jean McCarthy, of Brook Park; Jacqueline Ahlers, of Vandalia; and Michelle Saunders and Ryan Leigh Foss, both of Huron.

        About 1,000 people, mostly students, filled the lower half of the school's basketball arena.

        “I saw how many people my daughter touched,” said Beth Bakker, mother of Andrea. “She was the most giving and loving person.

        “She was my angel. I never thought she would officially be an angel though,” she said.

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