Five-year-old Lily Parker held her candle high. Tears streamed down her face as she dabbed her eyes with a tissue. She missed her kindergarten teacher, Brijette Basden.
“Lily really loved Miss Basden,” Lily’s mother, Leigh Parker, said. “She was the best kindergarten teacher I could have asked for. She was just so patient and kind.”
It’s been less than two weeks since Basden was struck and killed in a tragic car crash on the side of Interstate 40 in Durham…