Orland Park special education teacher fatally shot on Dan Ryan was a tireless volunteer, faithful Catholic and inspiration to students

Denise Huguelet also continued her Catholic faith-based studies at Mundelein College, which later was absorbed by Loyola University Chicago. As a young couple, they moved to Coral Springs, Florida, where they lived for about a decade, and she became a junior high school special education teacher, a field she was drawn to because she cared so deeply about giving children every possible advantage in life.