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A former UW-Whitewater student and UW-Whitewater sophomore died in unrelated incidents during the summer.
Mallory Feldmann, 22, died of cardiac arrest Aug. 15 in Waukesha County, according to friends.
Feldmann was admitted to Waukesha Memorial hospital, where she was pronounced dead, her father Alan Feldmann said.
Long-time friend of Feldmann, Rachel Scherwin, said she was one of the most unique people she ever met and probably ever would meet."
"She meant everything to me, she was my best friend, she was my roommate," Scherwin said. "There will never really be enough memorials, enough tattoos or tears shed to honor the life she had."
Alan Feldmann said his daughter was a positive person and cherished by many.
"She was fabulous," he said. "We did a lot of things together, we played tennis together and skied together ... she was very active and friendly. She was great, she talked about taking care of me in my old age."
Feldmann attended UW-Whitewater for four years pursuing a degree in advertising and public relations.
"She would have been great at it, she had such high goals and high aspirations that who knows how high she would have gone," Scherwin said.
UW-Whitewater sophomore Samantha Burrow died during the summer from injuries sustained in a car crash.
Burrow, 20, reportedly was driving home from work in Fort Atkinson July 29 and lost control of the vehicle on Highway H near Elkhorn.
According to the Walworth Co. Sherriff's Department, Burrow was exceeding the speed limit when she hit a soft shoulder of the highway and collided with a tree.
She was pronounced dead Aug. 12 at Froedort Hospital in Milwaukee after being in a coma for about two weeks.
Burrow was a 2007 graduate of Elkhorn Area High School.
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