Alamance County family asks district to honor late daughter at graduation ceremony: ‘She is as equal as everyone else’

ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — The family and friends of a Burlington teen who died nearly two years ago are fighting for her to be honored at graduation.

Sophie Fox was a rising junior in high school when she died of a seizure in the summer of 2024.

‘Meant so Much’

Her mother, Logan Hadley, said she had suffered from epilepsy since she was 10 years old. She said the seizures only worsened as Fox got older.

“Whenever I came home from work one day, unfortunately, … she had a seizure,” Hadley said. “And I called the ambulance and went to the hospital, but there was nothing that they could do.”…

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