Those roadside memorials are always sad, but the one on Byrd Road is especially poignant: 17-year-old Jacob Burnham of West Grove was killed when he crashed his beloved pickup truck, Maggie Mae, on September 28. At the accident site, which sits on a peaceful stretch of the gravel one-lane road, there's a large wooden cross, with loving messages from his friends, balloons, candles and a string of rosary beads.
His friends, wearing commemorative T-shirts, gathered there for a memorial candlelight ceremony on Sept. 30.
Jacob, son of Jim and Becky Burnham, was a student at Avon Grove High School and was in the automotive technology program at the Technical College High School at Pennocks Bridge. His friends and family set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for an auto tech scholarship in his name.
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