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“Baking is an extension of love,” said Crumbs Bakery owner Melanie Duncan. To show her love and support for Jessica and Jake Woodruff – the Yreka couple killed by a redwood tree that fell on their car while driving on Highway 199 last month – Duncan created an online dessert auction to benefit the five children they left behind.
Duncan was a co-worker of Jessica’s, and she graduated from Yreka High School in 2003 alongside Jake. So she was devastated to learn of their sudden and unexpected deaths on March 25.
“I know the family well, and I love the family,” Duncan said. “I really wanted to do something to help.”
Fundraiser started for five kids of Yreka couple killed by falling redwood tree
Bill Choy
A Go Fund Me campaign has been created for the five children of a Yreka couple who died March 25 when a redwood tree fell on their car as they drove on Highway 199, west of Hiouchi in Del Norte County.
Jessica, 45, and Jake Woodruff, 36, were on an annual trip up the coast for Jessica’s 45th birthday, according to campaign organizers.
The father of the two older children still lives in the Yreka area.
The 175-foot redwood tree fell directly on top of the Woodruff s Honda Accord while the husband was driving south on the scenic highway north of Walker Road at 11:49 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol in Crescent City.
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