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Jonathan Wright

Kentucky mother-of-three jumps into water to rescue stranger’s drowning child, dies to save him: ‘She needs to quit being a super woman’

A single mother of three from Bowling Green, Kentucky, has died after pulling a stranger’s child from a creek.

Sarah Jo Reeder, 42, was visiting the creek at Phil Moore Park in Alvaton with some of her children on Friday, June 12, when she noticed a young boy struggling and going under. She jumped into the water to rescue the boy, and per what Reeder’s longtime friend Melissa Donovan told WBKO, he grabbed onto her and pulled her down with him.

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