Oswego State freshman and Seneca Hall resident Jayme Meehan passed away on Tuesday at her home in West Nyack, New York at the age of 18.

“This is a sad loss for our entire campus community and a particularly difficult time for Jayme’s classmates, fellow Seneca Hall residents and faculty,” Dean of Students Jerri Howland said in a campus-wide announcement that was sent to students on Thursday.

According to the obituary from Sorce Funeral Home, where Meehan’s funeral service will be held on Friday, Meehan was born in Westwood, New Jersey on May 28, 1998 to Thomas and Colleen Meehan. She was a 2016 graduate of Tappan Zee High School and began attending Oswego State in the beginning of the fall semester.

The obituary describes Meehan as “outgoing, passionate, understanding, cheerful, hysterical and unique.”

“Personally, I have met Jayme,” Howland said. “She is very pleasant and a strong young lady and it is difficult to not have her with us anymore.”

Meehan left behind her loving parents, sister, Shayna Meehan and grandmother, Sissy Skehill-Meehan, along with many aunts, uncles and cousins.

For students who need support during this time, the Counseling Center, located in the Mary Walker Health Center, is available for walk-in sessions Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. A crisis counselor will be available on Friday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. in Seneca Hall’s first floor lounge.

“This is time for them that we need to support [her friends, classmates and faculty] and also to be here during the quiet days long afterwards,” Howland said. “As a community, it is one of those times for us to come together and make sure we are supporting each other.”