Tragic News: 13-Year-Old Louisville Lady Slugger Player Monrhowe Aaron Killed in Car Accident; GoFundMe Created to Help with Funeral Expenses

The Holiday season is supposed to be a time of celebration and happiness, but for one Missouri family and softball organization it is, instead, a time of loss and heartache.

The Louisville Slugger 16U – Cline team from Southwest Missouri is helping one of its own families cope with the tragic loss of 13-year-old Monrhowe Aaron, who was killed in a car accident late Saturday night when the Ford Festiva she was riding in ran off the road and overturned striking a fence. The young athlete was pronounced dead at the scene.

Monrhowe’s father, Conaley Aaron is an assistant coach on the team and several older members of the family, which lives in Cabool, Missouri, play for the Sluggers organization including sisters Bailey and MaKinley (16U), Morganne (18U) and cousin Hailey Shannon (18U).

Jim Huecker, the head of the travel ball program and coach for the 18U team, stated:

“The Louisville Lady Sluggers organization and the entire softball community mourns the loss of such a special young lady. Monrhowe will be celebrated by the strength of this softball community and the impact she made will live through the lessons her young life taught.”

“This is unimaginable and will take time to heal,” the coach continues. “Her family needs us more than ever and, honestly, this is just heartbreaking. It leaves us all searching for the words. Our hearts just absolutely pour out to the Aaron and Shannon families.”

A GoFundMe has been created to help the Aaron family with funeral expenses; the plan is to have the teenager buried in Illinois next to her grandmother.

Anyone who would like to make a donation can do so by clicking on this link:

GoFundMe for Monrhowe Aaron’s family

Monrhowe was described on the fundraising page created by the Aaron and Shannon families as a “kind, beautiful and young girl” who was “very loved in this small community of ours. She made anyone laugh and couldn’t wait to do sports with her friends.”

On behalf of those of us at Extra Inning Softball, we offer our deepest sympathies to the Aaron family and those in the Lady Sluggers organization who are in mourning.

— Brentt Eads, Extra Inning Softball