Runners take off during the Scranton half-marathon on April 2, 2017.Pat Hendrick / Scranton Running Co.
An autopsy, which is scheduled for Monday, will hopefully shine some light as to what happened to Doherty — who ran the same race last year.
Doherty was “quite the runner” and had been training for at least six months for this race, said her pastor Monsignor Neil J. Van Loon of the St. Paul’s Parish in Scranton.
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She was actively involved in community fundraising for Catholic education, he said.
“She made a great impact and was a multi-talented, beautiful, loving young woman who hit all the right notes,” he said.
Doherty’s husband and three children, all under the age of 6, are “in shock as anyone could expect,” Van Loon said.
“She was a real star for us and her passing has diminished us all,” he said. “It will take us a long time to overcome her loss.”
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While marathon deaths are not a common, they have occurred in recent years.
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