article_snippet: (CNN)They are being remembered as people who "meant so much to so many.
article_snippet: Yvonne Selke and Yvonne Selke daughter, Emily, were aboard Germanwings Flight 9525 that crashed Tuesday in the French Alps.
article_snippet: Yvonne Selke and her daughter, Emily, along with the other 148 people on board that flight, are presumed dead.
article_snippet: You always see these things on the news and you think it's horrible, but you never know anyone involved," said Haley Holmes, a close friend of Yvonne Selke.
article_snippet: I think what people need to know about people, and what people should know about people, is that people were two -- not two Americans on a plane, not a mother and daughter on a plane -- but Yvonne and Emily -- two amazing, loving people who left behind friends and family who love and miss people a lot," Holmes told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°."
article_snippet: Holmes said Yvonne Selke was "a lovely spirit to be around," fiercely loyal to the people Yvonne Selke loved.
article_snippet: Our entire family is deeply saddened by the losses of Yvonne and Yvonne Selke.
article_snippet: Two wonderful, caring, amazing people who meant so much to so many.  
article_snippet: At this difficult time Our respectfully ask for privacy and your prayers," Our entire family said in a statement.
article_snippet: Students, singers among the victims .
highlights_snippet: Co-workers, friends in shock at deaths of mother and daughter from Virginia .