Just after midnight a week ago, Jen Ebert got a text she didn’t see until around sunrise that morning.
It was from Jill Evans, one of her best friends whom she’s known for 20 years. And the words from Jill, who had just been diagnosed with cancer the month before, were crushing.
“We just lost our house to a fire,” Jill Evans, of Shawnee, wrote to Ebert at 12:17 a.m. Tuesday, March 31. “Jen, I have no words. We have nothing.”…