Jennifer Bonilla, 17, would have been the first in her family to go to college, though she encouraged her older sisters to follow her lead.
Students, friends and family line up to sign a poster memorializing Jennifer Bonilla at the vigil held at Dorsey High School. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Wearing T-shirts adorned with Jennifer Bonilla’s picture, students join about 300 others at Dorsey High to honor the 17-year-old senior killed in the April 10 bus accident. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Jose Beltran, a friend of the Bonilla family, releases a balloon along with numerous others during the vigil for Jennifer. Green and white are Dorsey High’s colors. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
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Hailey Ordonez, 4, talks about a dream she had about her aunt, bus crash victim Jennifer Bonilla, who appeared to her as an angel with pink wings to tell Hailey she missed her and to give her a flower. The Dorsey High School senior’s family gathered in her sister’s home to remember her: Family friend Maritza Mestas, left; Jennifer’s sister Nancy Bonilla, behind Hailey; family friend Jose Beltran; her sister Rosa Bonilla Ordonez; and Rosa’s husband, Luis Ordonez. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
A candle burns next to a family photo of Jennifer Bonilla, a 17-year-old senior at Dorsey High who was killed in last week’s bus crash along with four other area students and three chaperones on their way to visit Humboldt State. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
Hailey Ordonez, 4, stands with her mother, Rosa Bonilla Ordonez, and aunt Nancy Bonilla, as they look at flowers and a shrine to their youngest sister, Jennifer. Jennifer would have been the first in their family to go to college. “She was our baby, but she was the leader,” Nancy Bonilla said. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
Nancy Bonilla and Maritza Mestas hold hands as family and friends gathered to remember Jennifer Bonilla. Jennifer had planned to attend UC Santa Cruz in the fall, but decided to go on the trip to Humboldt State anyway. She was one of 10 people killed when a FedEx truck hit the tour bus carrying students and chaperones to the university. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
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Nancy Bonilla wipes a tear as she talks about her sister Jennifer Bonilla, the Dorsey High senior killed in last week’s bus crash. Jennifer had encouraged her older sisters also to go to college, saying, “If I go to school, you have to go as well.” (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
