CURWENSVILLE, Pa. (EYT) — Katrina Seaburn will never be forgotten.
Not if her mom, Tammy Seaburn, has anything to do with it.
Tammy Seaburn has already started one scholarship in her daughter’s honor, is looking to start another, and would like to someday have a foundation in the name of her daughter, who was murdered by her boyfriend, Damien Ditz, on March 1, 2017.
“I want to keep the memory of Katrina alive while helping to ensure that no one else has to go through what she went through,” Tammy Seaburn said. “I want to be able to help other girls. I don’t want to see another girl go through what she went through. She was alone. Because of the domestic violence, her friends didn’t want to be a part of it, and she didn’t talk to her friends here (in Curwensville) about it. If I can prevent that, then I am doing great things to honor her.”
Tammy Seaburn has already started the path to honoring Katrina starting with a scholarship she set up at Curwensville High School, where her daughter graduated in 2013. Katrina was just two months shy of graduation at Clarion University when she was shot and killed in the Lake Lucy area of Washington Township, Clarion County.
“Right now, there is a scholarship at Curwensville High School for two seniors graduating each year,” Tammy Seaburn said. “Each scholarship is for $500.00. There is criteria for them that follows what she did in high school. (The recipient) must be doing something in music, whether that is band front, choir, band, whatever) and also do something in athletic sports. It can be any sport, including cheerleading. They also must be in the National Honor Society. Those things were important to Katrina.”