Jessica Rekos, 6, told her mom, Krista Rekos, that morning before she got on the bus how excited she was to sell Girl Scout cookies that January. "She sat in the front seat, looked at me through the window, and smiled and waved as the bus pulled up the hill," Krista wrote. "That was the last time I saw Jessica alive."
Source: Jessica Rekos Foundation
Olivia Engel, 6, was an outgoing girl with "a great sense of humor." She also had a brother who was 3 years old at the time.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Avielle Richman, 6, "was rarely without a giant grin and often barefoot." Her family founded the Avielle Foundation "to fund research exploring the underpinnings of the brain that lead to violent behaviors."
Source: Avielle Foundation
Jesse Lewis, 6, was "just a happy boy" who was supposed to make gingerbread houses with his family Friday afternoon after school.
Source: The New York Post
Grace Audrey McDonnell, 7, was also killed in the massacre. Her family called her "the love and light of our family."
Source: ABC News
Noah Pozner, 6, had a twin sister. The pair celebrated their sixth birthday on Nov. 20. Noah's sister survived the attack.
Source: ABC News
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6, had just moved with her family to Sandy Hook a few months before the shooting. Her 9-year-old brother was also at the school during the incident but escaped.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Emilie Parker, 6, was the oldest of three sisters. Before she died she was teaching her younger sister how to read, Emilie's father told the Journal.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Charlotte Bacon, 6, practiced Tae Kwon Do and was an avid animal lover. Her family says her self-expression revolved around the color pink.
Josephine Gay, 7, celebrated her birthday just three days before she was killed. Her parents have set up a fundraising campaign called "Joey's Fund" to help other families who have kids with autism.
Source: New York Daily News
Daniel Barden, 7, was "an old soul." His family founded a foundation in his name to encourage others to do little acts of kindness.
Caroline Previdi, 6. Her family founded a foundation in her name to give kids scholarships to support their passions. "When talking about our family, or herself," they wrote, "she would tell people, 'We are not lucky. We are blessed!"
Source: Caroline Previdi Foundation
Allison Wyatt, 6, wanted to be an artist, and rows of pictures filled her house. Her parents wrote that they found picture Allie had drawn for her first grade teacher, Miss Soto. It read: "I love you, Love Allie".
Victoria Soto, 27, died while trying to protect her students. Soto put her students in a closet and "by doing that put herself between the gunman and the children," Soto's cousin told ABC News.
Source: ABC News
Lauren Rousseau, 30, was a full-time substitute teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Dawn Hochsprung, 47, was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary. She was "always enthusiastic, always smiling, always game to do anything," former PTA secretary Kristin Larson told the Boston Globe.
Source: Boston Globe
Mary Sherlach, 56, was the school psychologist. She was only one year away from retirement, after which she and her husband planned to spend time in their cabin along upstate New York's Finger Lakes, according to Newtown Patch.
Source: Patch
Rachel Davino, 29, barricaded the classroom to try and keep the gunman from getting to the children. Her boyfriend had asker her parents' permission to marry her days before the shooting. He was planning to pop the question on Christmas Eve.
Sources: Legacy, Rachel Marie D’Avino memorial site
Anne Marie Murphy, 52, was a para professional at the school who worked with a boy with special needs named Dylan Hockley. Her body was found covering a group of children, and she died with Dylan in her arms.
Source: Danbury News-Times
