Eunjey Cho

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Eunjey Cho
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Age: 25

Location:
near milepost 46 on the southbound side of U.S. Highway 50
Kannah Creek
Grand Junction , CO
United States

From Jesuit Volunteers NW:

In Memoriam: Eunjey Cho

Dear JVC Northwest community,

JVC Northwest staff are deeply saddened to share that recent FJV
AmeriCorps member Eunjey Cho (Spokane ’12-13) passed away yesterday,
September 18, 2013, in a cycling accident.

He and fellow FJV John McGuin (Spokane ’12-13) were cycling across
the country
, having left Spokane at the end of their service year, and
were traveling to Eunjey’s hometown in New Jersey when Eunjey was struck
by a car on their route through Colorado.

Eunjey

JVs and staff remember Eunjey as an individual full of life – beloved by all who knew him.
While serving as a JV in Spokane, he quickly became known for his
generosity, his gentleness, and his keen sense of humor.  As part of
their trek across the country, Eunjey and John raised money to support
JVC Northwest.

From the GJ Sentinel

A marker for a life vanished


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DEAN HUMPHREY/The Daily Sentinel—A bicycle painted silver has
been placed along U.S Highway 50 where cyclist Eunjey Cho was killed by a
vehicle Wednesday.

By
Rachel Sauer

Monday, September 23, 2013

If you don’t know it’s there, it’s easy to miss: a silver bike
propped on the inside of — and almost blending into — the silver
guardrail. It seems ephemeral, ghost-like.

And that’s what it is, a ghost bike, near milepost 46 on the
southbound side of U.S. Highway 50 in Kannah Creek. It stands near the
spot where Eunjey Cho, 25, was killed Wednesday when, according to the
Colorado State Patrol, Tonie Rosales, 29, of Palisade hit him with a
Chevy Blazer. Rosales was on her way to a Delta County hearing for a
June impaired driving arrest, the State Patrol reported.

That Cho was so young, that he was on a cross-country bike trip with a
friend, that they were raising money for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Northwest, was particularly poignant to area cyclists, explained John
Hodge, who is among their number.

“It was George Manning who originally suggested that (placing a ghost
bike at the accident site) would be a good opportunity,” Hodge
explained. “We don’t want (Cho’s family) to think that everyone around
here drives around drunk or on drugs.”

Hodge said that many cyclists, who get organized via social media,
supported the ghost bike idea. According to ghostbikes.org, the first
ones were created in 2003 in St. Louis, and are placed at the site where
bicyclists died. Hodge said Brown Cycles donated an old 10-speed, which
he spray painted silver and placed at the crash site Friday afternoon.

“It’s intended to be more than a memorial,” Hodge said. “It’s also
there to raise awareness for anyone driving by to maybe realize how
fragile folks on bikes are.”

Cho and his friend, John McGuin,  were riding from Seattle to Cho’s
home in Princeton, N.J. The two men had finished a year of service with
the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest (jvcnorthwest.org) in Spokane,
Wash., and were trying to raise $2,400 to support two more volunteers in
their year of service (volunteers are encouraged to live simply on $100
per month). According to firstgiving.com, the pair had raised $3,105.

In response to Cho’s death, Jesuit Volunteer Corps staff wrote on
their website, “JVs and staff remember Eunjey as an individual full of
life — beloved by all who knew him. While serving as a JV in Spokane, he
quickly became known for his generosity, his gentleness, and his keen
sense of humor.”

Hodge said the ghost bike is a memorial to the person Cho was and a way to honor what he and McGuin were doing.

“We see this, hopefully, as something we can do to make the best of a
horrible situation,” Hodge said of himself and other cyclists. “I’d
like to never see it again, and I hope it’s a reminder to everyone on
the road that this person’s safety is in the hands of everybody who
drives by.”