Mollie Quick volunteered at the puppy patrol area at AHeinz57 Pet Rescue and her family’s campaign aims to expand that room.
DE SOTO, Iowa — After Mollie Quick, 20, unexpectedly passed away in a car crash, her family launched a campaign to address overcrowding at the AHeinz57 Pet Rescue.
Mother’s Day weekend, Mollie, who was a hospital corpsman E-3, was on the way home to Waukee from her navy base in Twentynine Palms, CA.
On May 12 she crashed into a semi that was pulled off the road near Kearney, NE.
“She started hydroplaning, her car started spinning and she collided into a semi,” Mollie’s mother Molly Quick said. “It was head on from the driver’s side door to the back of the semi.”
Mollie was a huge animal lover and spent about five years volunteering in the puppy patrol area at AHeinz57.
“It’s a no kill shelter, so a lot of them …