Stephana Michaella (Wells) Barr, 45, or Steph to her friends and family, passed Sunday, June 30 at her home in Hennepin, Ill. She had been fighting leukemia since she was diagnosed on the first day of school last August. Steph worked as a teacher's aide at Putnam County Primary School in Granville for 13 years where she had hoped to return to working with the children, whom she loved. And the students loved Mrs. Barr too.
Steph was born in Peoria, Ill. on February 10, 1979 to Darlene (Short) Hernan and Stephen Wells, at which time she became little sister to Jason Wells.
In the fourth grade Steph met her life-long friends Heather Hoffman and Kim Howard-Hall. Steph and her ride-or-die "bitches" had many adventures, and a few misadventures, throughout their decades-long friendship. The three shared an unbreakable bond that was cherished by each of them well past their graduation from Limestone High School in Bartonville, Ill. Steph also earned an associates degree in accounting from Ill

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