Ask Susan Cobb and she’ll tell you: She never had plans to become an activist.
A registered nurse, she led a relatively normal life, raising her two children in Hartwell, Georgia, with her husband Wayne. During her days as a nursing student at Brenau University, she said, “we often talked about how someone in our class would be an activist.”
“I never envisioned that I would be in that position,” she said. “But I never envisioned losing my daughter.”
A talented gymnast who dreamed of some day making the Olympic team, Cobb’s daughter, Jennifer, began attending a gymnastics program through their local YMCA in Hartwell at age 11.
“Jennifer had a beautiful heart, and she loved equally,” Cobb said. “She cared about humanity. She loved animals, and she was a giver.”