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Teachers joined in birth, death: two new mothers taught together, died days apart.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)

| May 10, 2007 | McCullough, Marie | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Marie McCullough

May 10--In March, the staff, students and parents of Avon Elementary School threw a surprise baby shower for teachers Valerie Scythes and Melissa Farah.

Mere weeks later, both young women were dead.

They died, 15 days apart, after delivering by cesarean section at Underwood Memorial Hospital in Woodbury, Gloucester County. They left behind healthy infants -- Isabella Rose Scythes and Grace Melissa Farah.

A combination of the unthinkable and the incredible, the deaths have turned two first-time fathers into widowers, shaken the tiny school and its close-knit borough of Barrington, and left myriad questions about what went wrong.

"It's just unbelievable," said Barrington Mayor John Rink, whose son Nolan was in Scythes' class last year.

Scythes, 35, died March 28. The cause is unclear, and final autopsy results are pending, said John Baldante, a Philadelphia lawyer representing the family.

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