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When 10-year-old Makenna Alverson chose to be Nancy Reagan in her school’s wax museum-style history project, the former first lady was the only living person on the list.
Makenna, a fourth-grader at Oakwood Christian Academy in Chickamauga, Ga., spent months working on her assignment for the program, called “Night at the Museum.”
Then, on Sunday, March 6, news arrived that the 94-year-old former first lady had died of congestive heart failure.
Makenna, the daughter of Jon and Melissa Alverson, quickly rallied from the news, but not before a night of quiet reflection.
“I was a little sad that she died,” Makenna recalled.