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<\/div>\nA family is mourning their loved one who died during the Texas floods over the Fourth of July weekend \u2014 and also revealing how her body was able to be identified thanks to a special gift.<\/p>\n
Jane Hunt was remembered by her grandmother Margaret Hunt as a \u201cbrilliant\u201d and \u201cprecocious\u201d child who \u201cloved life\u201d and \u201cloved everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Margaret tells PEOPLE her 9-year-old granddaughter was also a big theater fan, and a necklace she gifted the child following a performance helped the family identify Jane after her death.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was in a play in May, and that\u2019s when I gave her the little Janie necklace that she had on when they found the body,\u201d Margaret says. \u201cThat\u2019s how they knew it was Janie. She had on a necklace that, in beads, spelled out [her name].\u201d<\/p>\n Jane was one of the at least\u00a027 campers and counselors\u00a0who lost their lives at Camp Mystic during the recent flooding tragedy.<\/p>\n Margaret tells PEOPLE that Jane\u2019s body was found alongside Camp Mystic owner\u00a0Dick Eastland, who died in the floods while trying to\u00a0save the lives of campers.<\/p>\n According to Margaret, it had been Jane\u2019s first year at Camp Mystic. She wanted to attend the camp because \u201cshe wanted to be with her cousins,\u201d whom she had been \u201cvery close\u201d with, Margaret adds.<\/p>\n The grieving relative says Jane\u2019s family later learned she had been a source of comfort for other campers while attending Camp Mystic before her death.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re now hearing stories about how some of the other campers were homesick, and that Janie was counseling them and telling them not to cry,\u201d Margaret says, adding of Jane: \u201cShe loved camp for the five days she was there.\u201d<\/p>\n Jane was remembered in her obituary as \u201cthe heartbeat of her family,\u201d who was \u201cadventurous, kind and charitable\u201d to others.<\/p>\n Her family added that she \u201cwill be remembered for her perpetual smile and the sheer joy she brought to everyone around her.\u201d<\/p>\n Margaret says Jane loved art and wanted to be an artist when she grew up. She highlights how Jane was chosen from her elementary school class to show her artwork at an art show, where she submitted a \u201cdrawing of hearts\u201d that she was \u201cquite proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n Margaret says Jane also loved singing in her school\u2019s choir, and her favorite song to sing was \u201cGo Tell It on the Mountain,\u201d which her cousins plan to sing at her funeral to commemorate her.<\/p>\n Jane\u2019s parents, Davin and Anne Lindsey Hunt, are \u201ctaking comfort in small things, and the community has surrounded them with love,\u201d Margaret tells PEOPLE.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard on them, of course,\u201d she continues. \u201cI tell people when they ask me what they can pray for, I say pray for strength for Davin and Lindsey, not today, but in the days, weeks, months and years to come, because they\u2019re going to need it.\u201d<\/p>\n Margaret adds that her family has been able to find joy in reading letters that Jane wrote while at camp, before tragedy struck.<\/p>\n \u201c[Her letters] were all positive,\u201d Margaret says, detailing that Jane\u2019s messages read: \u201cI love camp, I love my friends. I\u2019m having a\u00a0wonderful time.\u201d<\/p>\n Jane is survived by her parents and siblings \u2014 a 7-year-old brother Henry and a 2-year-old sister Julia \u2014 as well as several cousins, aunts and uncles.<\/p>\n Her funeral is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, July 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jane Hunt\u2019s grandma tells PEOPLE the child \u201cloved life\u201d and \u201cloved everybody\u201d A family is mourning their loved one who died during the Texas floods over the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Texas](\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/zrM3Z8eRtwRpoDiCUSI5kKWs6Zs=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2):format(webp)\/Janie-Hunt-art-071225-93a707ca14204e93823ae64d9c6bd2a0.jpg\")
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