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A 24-year-old Marine Sergeant died aft she was injured successful a skiing mishap astatine a fashionable edifice successful Colorado portion location visiting her household for the holidays.
Jessie Mello, 24, was skiing astatine Powderhorn Mountain connected Dec. 24 erstwhile she suffered a terrible caput wounded and breached bones, the Mesa County Coroner and the edifice confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Officials said that the Marine was connected an intermediate-level way erstwhile the Christmas Eve mishap occurred.
Her father, Eric Mello, told The Colorado Sun that eyewitnesses reported she deed a spot of crystal and collided into a tree. He said that she was wearing a helmet astatine the clip of the accident.
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Jessie Mello, a 24-year-old Marine from Grand Junction, died earlier this period pursuing a skis mishap astatine Powderhorn Resort successful Mesa, Colorado. (Eric Mello/Facebook)
Following the accident, the skis patrol responded, and she was flown to St. Mary’s Hospital successful Grand Junction, Colorado — astir 40 miles from the resort— and was placed in intensive care.
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The Mesa County Coroner said Mello remained hospitalized for respective days but died connected Jan. 5 from caput injuries.
"My babe miss went peacefully into Jesus’s arms tonight," her father, Eric, wrote successful a Facebook post.
She died from her caput injuries astatine the infirmary Jan. 5, according to the Mesa County Coroner’s Office. (Eric Mello/Facebook)
A ceremonial was held for Mello at Messiah Lutheran Church connected Jan. 10.
Jessie Mello was remembered by household arsenic being hardworking and afloat of "character." (Eric Mello/Facebook)
She was remembered arsenic a "woman of unthinkable talent, character, and love."
"She made you privation to beryllium the champion you could be, nary substance what. Her specified beingness brought radical unneurotic and allowed others to find the strengths that made them unique. She would observe your victories and weed retired your failures," her household wrote successful her obituary. "Excellence was not a lofty extremity for Jessie; it was the standard."
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"Jessie leaves down a loving family who volition cherish her representation and transportation her airy forward," her household wrote. She is survived by her parents, Eric and Jennifer Mello, and 2 brothers, Bo and William Mello.
Fox News Digital has reached retired to the U.S. Marines for comment.
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