Jennifer Leigh Strohl of Jim Thorpe, who died on Thursday in Killington, Vt., was doing what she loved, said her grandmother, Mary Strohl.

Jennifer died in a skiing accident.Strohl is distraught over losing her granddaughter."I try to think of the good things," she said. "I lie here dreaming of her and then realize she's gone and I cry. I'm up all hours of the night."She said Jennifer used to ski at Big Boulder, but her dream was always to try Killington, Vermont."Her friends got tickets," she said. "Her dream was always to go to a place like that. I've heard that the slopes there are so dangerous and that they have 40 to 50 fatalities a year."She said that Jennifer loved snow boarding and her grandmother believes that is what she was doing when she died.She said that Jennifer worked as an aide for the ReDCo group taking care of a three men with special needs in a group home in Penn Forest."She loved her clients," she said. "She used to tell us how sweet the one man was and she would have loved to take him home. She loved her job. She loved what she was doing. She loved taking care of her clients."She had a lot of friends, her grandmother said. "What comforts me is knowing that she was doing something she wanted to do at the time," she said. "It was dream that she pursued and it was her time. God picked her.Jennifer was my Tricia Hettler's cousin."She was someone you always could talk to someone who would always make you laugh," said Hettler. "Jen loved going to dance competitions with my dance school to see her favorite little girl Kira and Brittany perform. She went to Philly with me all the time we have so many great memories. From little on up she was my best friend. Life is just not going to be the same. She was an amazing person who will truly be missed. Fly high angel."Kim Faust, said losing Jennifer is sad. "I'm praying for her parents," Faust said.