Teen remembered as ‘smart, funny, beautiful’
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Madison Young was looking forward to heading back to school this week and was about to start a new job at Walmart before her life was cut short early Sunday morning.
Her mother, friends and other family members are remembering the 17-year-old after she was hit by a vehicle after leaving a party just outside of Brandon.
RCMP are investigating the crash that occurred at around 3:15 a.m. on Road 107 West in the Rural Municipality of Cornwallis.
A 17-year-old boy who was driving the vehicle, who is from Virden, along with a 16-year-old boy who was walking on the road with Madison, were uninjured, RCMP said Tuesday.
Police don’t believe alcohol was a factor. The driver stayed on scene.
Yvette Young, the girl’s mother, said her daughter was “smart, funny and beautiful.”
“My daughter was amazing,” Young said Tuesday. “She was going to be successful in whatever she did, and it’s just a shame that was taken away from her so soon. She didn’t even get to start living her life yet.”
Young said everyone would always want to be with Madison, and relatives would ask to take care of her as she was growing up.
Madison, who was originally from Swan Lake but lived in Brandon nearly her whole life, was exceptionally smart, her mother said.
Young said her daughter could read well before kindergarten and had written a book at the age of 12, which has been read 65,000 times by people online. She was also heavily involved with the youth centre in town.
“It’s a shame. My baby was going places,” Young said while attending a wake service.
The service was for both Madison and another young relative, who passed away on Monday.
Young said now she will have to try to arrange a funeral for her daughter.
“I’m going to try to throw a funeral, because there’s just non-stop people (who are reaching out), and everybody loved her,” Young said. “There’s all the people at the youth centre that will want to come, and all her friends from school and her family.”
Charlene Luckie Church, Madison’s cousin who was more of an aunt to her, said she will miss Madison “dearly.”
“She was an amazing young woman. She has touched a lot of people’s hearts in her short time,” she wrote in a message on Facebook.
“She was such a bright light.”
» alambert@brandonsun.com