article_snippet: At the school Katherine, known as 'Katy,' attended, officials were trying to provide the children with as much normalcy as possible while also making grief counselors available.
article_snippet: Deidre Helmke's son was in the same class as Katy for both first and second grade as part of a class that stayed together for their first two years of elementary school.
article_snippet: Helmke, who served as 'room mother' for first grade at riddle Brook Elementary School, described it as a tight-knit group.
article_snippet: On Monday, she was flipping through school yearbooks looking at pictures of Katy, whom she remembered as a 'little peanut.'