The softball fields of northern Indiana fell quiet this week as news spread of the passing of Febie Booher, a teenage athlete from LaGrange County whose presence on and off the diamond left a mark that teammates and families say will never fade.
The Fort Wayne Wolfpack travel softball organization broke the news to a stunned community, and the response was immediate, raw, and deeply personal.
Febie was a right-handed pitcher and third baseman for Prairie Heights High School in LaGrange, Indiana, where she was part of the varsity program and had been building toward a future in college softball…