Services for incoming MCS teacher Thursday, Friday

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Visitation and funeral arrangements for Alina BigJohny, 23, have been announced.
BigJohny, who was killed during the stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday, was an incoming teacher for Muncie Community Schools.
Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Klaehn, Fahl & Melton Funeral Home, Winchester Road Chapel, 6424 Winchester Road, Ft. Wayne. Visitation will be 2-9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
According to the obituary, which appeared in today’s Fort Wayne News Sentinel, BigJohny was a 2007 graduate of Wayne High School and was the salutatorian of her class. She was also the captain of the gymnastics team, editor-in-chief of the school paper and senior class president at Wayne High School. She graduated in May of 2011 with honors from Manchester College. She was planning on teaching seventh grade this fall at Wilson Middle School, Muncie.
In a MCS press release, “Supt. Tim Heller and the Muncie Community Schools Board of School Trustees send their sincere sympathies to Alina's parents, Robert and Polly BigJohny, her sister and brother, and grandparents.”