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 Grace Hillebrand, of Clarks Summit, left, and Lindsay Doherty, of Scranton. 
 
 No matter what need the Baby Pantry at St. Joseph’s Center had, Tracy Bannon always knew a phone call or text to Lindsay Doherty would fill it. 
 
 “I don’t think she slept,” Bannon, the center’s assistant director of development, said Monday. “Her heart was so full of love and she was always so ready to share herself. You called her about anything, and she would be like, ‘No problem.’ 
 
 “And she got it done.” 
 
 The day after Doherty collapsed and died after completing Sunday’s Scranton Half Marathon, people who knew the 36-year-old mother of three remembered a woman of boundless energy and passionate selflessness, someone with a broad, infectious smile and a relentless can-do spirit. 
 
 Lindsay O'Rourke Doherty Obituary 
 
 At St. Clare/St. Paul School in the city’s Green Ridge section, where Doherty was active in the parent-teacher organization, Principal Doug Workman called her “one of those people who you never heard anyone at any time say a bad word about.” 
 
 “It’s certainly a huge loss,” Workman said. “Lindsay was a pillar of the community but not only that. She was just a shining star as a Catholic, Christian example, as a mother, as a community member. She was just really, really awesome, and it’s hit everyone very hard.” 
 
 Doherty had just crossed the finish line of the half marathon when she collapsed. Medical personnel rushed to assist her before she was taken by ambulance to Geisinger Community Medical Center, where she died in the emergency room. 
 
 An autopsy Monday showed Doherty suffered an intra-abdominal hemorrhage, Lackawanna County Coroner Tim Rowland said. He ruled the manner of her death as natural. 
 
 Bannon became friends with Doherty about eight years ago when both worked at the Diocese of Scranton, where Doherty coordinated a pair of programs that help families pay for Catholic education for their children. She described the younger woman as “like a little sister.” 
 
 “Whatever I got involved in, I always asked her to be a part of because she brought so much to everything she did. ... Nothing was too much for her. She was easy to ask to do things because she did it so happily and joyfully.” 
 
 She recalled that Doherty, who recently joined the board of the St. Joseph’s Center Auxiliary, agreed to host a “girls night out” last year after the center’s Baby Pantry ran low on supplies. The center parked a van out front, and Doherty’s friends brought things for the pantry. 
 
 Doherty ended up filling the van twice over. 
 
 “She was so grateful for her life and how much she had. If a child in the city of Scranton needed anything, if you called Lindsay, she would say, ‘Oh, I can find it for them.’ It is just how she was, and she did that for everyone,” Bannon said. 
 
 County Recorder of Deeds Evie Rafalko McNulty said that when there was a public event in the city to benefit a charity, or when a good cause needed volunteers, Doherty was usually present “not for anything but just to be supportive.” 
 
 “I’m telling you, you would never meet a kinder, sweeter or more beautiful person,” McNulty said. 
 
 With the way Doherty wholeheartedly embraced and immersed herself in the city, some people may not have realized she grew up in New England and was not an area native, McNulty said. 
 
 “For someone who was not from our community, to be such a part of it in such a short period of time really speaks volumes about the type of person she was,” she said. 
 
 Doherty, the daughter of attorney and Mrs. Vincent Francis O’Rourke, graduated in 1998 from Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Massachusetts, and in 2002 from the College of the Holy Cross in nearby Worcester. 
 
 She and her future husband, James Andrew Doherty III of Scranton, met as students at Holy Cross. They were married at Holy Cross in August 2006. 
 
 At Wachusett, Doherty participated in indoor and outdoor track, specializing in middle-distance events, said Brian Wallace, who was her indoor coach for four years. She was a member of the 4-x-800-meter relay team that won at least one state championship, possibly more, during her time at Wachusett, he said. 
 
 “She was one of the kids that never, ever missed a practice and never had anything but a smile on her face,” Wallace said. “She was an exceptionally hardworking athlete who never complained about anything.” 
 
 Although she was not the fastest runner, she was a leader who understood her role, making her an invaluable member of the team, he said. 
 
 “When you talk about being a great teammate, that’s Lindsay,” Wallace said. “She just got it.” 
 
 According to Athlinks.com, Doherty was an active runner, participating in more than a half-dozen races over the past year. 
 
 An emailed statement released by Westyn Hinchey Gibbons on behalf of herself and 11 other friends said they loved Doherty the moment they met her more than 15 years ago. 
 
 “She was every bit as sweet, thoughtful and kind as everyone talking about her says she is, but we also knew her fierce loyalty, her no-nonsense attitude when it came to telling it like it is and her joy for any gathering of our girlfriends,” they said. “She was healthy, beautiful and full of light — just being around her could make your day better.” 
 
 Her friends said their hearts are broken for Doherty’s family, including children Jimmy, Katie and Paige. 
 
 “We’ll do everything we can to carry on Lindsay’s legacy and make sure her children know how incredibly wonderful their mom was,” they said. “She’s irreplaceable to us all.” 
 
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 dsingleton@timesshamrock.com ||||| SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A coroner says a woman who collapsed at the end of a half marathon in Pennsylvania died of an internal hemorrhage. 
 
 The Scranton Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2nx5NNl ) reports that the Lackawanna County coroner said Monday that 36-year-old Lindsay Doherty died of intra-abdominal bleeding. 
 
 The married mother of three collapsed at the end of Sunday's 13.1-mile (21.1-kilometer) Scranton Half Marathon. Emergency medical personnel tried to revive her at the race before she was taken to a hospital. 
 
 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton says Doherty worked in its development office, raising money for Catholic education. A special prayer service was scheduled Monday night at St. Paul's Parish in Scranton. 
 
 The Scranton resident had run the half marathon the previous year.
– A coroner says a woman who collapsed at the end of a half marathon in Pennsylvania died of an internal hemorrhage, the AP reports. The Scranton Times-Tribune reports that the Lackawanna County coroner said Monday that 36-year-old Lindsay Doherty died of intra-abdominal bleeding. The married mother of three collapsed at the end of Sunday's 13.1-mile Scranton Half Marathon. Emergency medical personnel tried to revive her at the race before she was taken to a hospital. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton says Doherty worked in its development office, raising money for Catholic education. A special prayer service was scheduled Monday night at St. Paul's Parish in Scranton. The Scranton resident had run the half marathon the previous year.