• Publication: The Red and Black (University of Georgia student newspaper)
• Author: Stephanie R. Baker, Staff Writer
• Original Publication Date: Monday, April 27, 1992

Jennifer Stone never referred to herself as Jennifer, nor did she expect others to. Those who knew her called her Jenny.

Funeral services for the 22-year-old University senior will be held today at 11 a.m. at St. Benedictine’s Church on Pleasant Hill Road in Roswell.

Stone, who studied advertising and excelled in photography, was described as being “down-to-earth and very motivated” by her friend, Alexis Heckman, a senior from Lyman, S.C.

Stone was appointed as account executive for her advertising campaigns class winter quarter, which Heckman said was both an honor and a huge responsibility. She said Stone had just been offered an internship with Bockel, Clark, and Gill, an Atlanta advertising agency. Stone had also planned to attend the Portfolio Center in Atlanta after graduating in June.

“Her priorities were her ad classes, her photography and her friends,” Heckman said. “Her personality was saucy, but she always had a compliment for everyone. She could come up with a blase way to say something very nice.”

Heckman said that Stone made a Valentine for her with glitter and construction paper.

“She had a flair for life,” Kimberly Smith, a senior from Bremen said.

“She loved cycling, she loved her two cats, and she had friends in many circles,” Heckman said. “Her friends were devoted to her.”

Walter Nix, Stone’s art photography professor, said, “She was just a decent kid, a wonderful, thoughtful, warm, decent human being.”

Stone’s closest friends found it difficult to talk about her.

“I know a lot of people would like to know more about Jenny,” Randy Brooks, a senior from Atlanta, said. “But they don’t need to know or understand Jenny to understand what has happened and to feel the loss. It may be kind of selfish of me, but Jenny was my whole life and I don’t want to share that with everyone.”

Tracy Pisell, a senior from Roswell and longtime friend of Stone’s, echoed Brooks.

“It would be difficult for us to share our Jenny with people we don’t know at this time,” Pisell said. She added, on behalf of Stone’s close friend Brian Bone, who could not be reached for comment, “We love her and miss her.”

“We all loved Jenny dearly,” Sandi Turner, a senior from Atlanta said. “But I can’t talk about her.”

Heckman said although she and Stone’s other friends hope the case is resolved as soon as possible, Stone would not have wanted people to live in fear.

“She didn’t live in fear and she wouldn’t have wanted to set off some kind of hysteria,” Heckman said.

Heckman said Stone chose to live alone in her one-bedroom apartment on Hull Street because she was very independent and liked living alone. However, there were times when she had considered getting a roommate.

“It’s really ridiculous that someone with her intelligence and independence couldn’t just live out her life as she chose,” said Angie Malone, a friend and junior from Greenwood, S.C.

[Photo caption] Jennifer Stone (File)