A Notre Dame alumna and her fiance died Wednesday in a crash while on the way to their wedding.

Kathryn Schurtz, 35, and her fiancé, Joseph Kearney, were driving on I-78 westbound in Windsor Township, Berks County, on Wednesday around 2:30 p.m. when the accident happened.

Traffic was heavy at the time due to an earlier crash. A semi was unable to stop and hit the couple's car which was then pushed into the back of another tractor-trailer.

Schurtz was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and grew up in Fanwood, New Jersey,

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She graduated from Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. She then attended George Washington University where she received her liberal arts degree before earning her MBA from Notre Dame. Schurtz worked as the Head of Platform Partnerships for Oracle Data Cloud in New York City and was residing in Jersey City, New Jersey, at the time of her death. Her mother also served as a councilwoman in Fanwood.

In lieu of flowers, donations should be made to the Kathryn M. Schurtz Scholarship Fund at Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.