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Memorial lauds school administrator Jane Unhjem, who died in August plane crash

Jane Unhjem, a Goshen assistant school district superintendent

Photo credit: Handout | Jane Unhjem, a Goshen assistant school district superintendent for curriculum and instruction, was killed in a plane crash on Long Island on Aug. 19, 2012. (September 2011) Newsday's obituary for Jane Unhjem

An upstate assistant superintendent who died in an August plane crash in Shirley was remembered Sunday at a memorial service as a dedicated educator with a "special connection to everybody."

"She always complimented my outfits, always," student Morgan Heinrich told News12 at the event for Jane Unhjem, which took place inside a packed Goshen High School auditorium. "She would also come to our...

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