An Air Force member and a 2009 Dansville High School grad, Alexandria Gleason Morrow, was killed in a non-combat operation in Southwest Asia Tuesday.

Alexandria’s mother spoke with News 8 Wednesday night, saying Alexandria was killed Tuesday in Jordan.

The 25-year-old was married and a mother of two young children. She describes her daughter as fun-loving, but level-headed.

Her mother says she went off to the military two days after graduating high school. Gleason Morrow told her mother that if she couldn’t fly a plane, she’d do everything she could to protect the pilots.

Lt. Kip Sumner of Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho said, “She died from injuries sustained from performing maintenance duties down-range, during non-combat operations.” Sumner could not provide more details and said Gleason Morrow’s death remains under investigation.

Sumner said Morrow worked for the 366th Fighter Wing, but was assigned to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia.

“Those who knew her valued her love of life and art, her leadership, her skills and her passion,” said Col. Jefferson O’Donnell, 366th Fighter Wing commander. “Her actions and contributions as a weapons loader just in five months overseas, let alone seven years as a Gunfighter, have set records for weapons employment in combat. We will dutifully continue to perform the mission while we mourn her loss. In doing so, we honor her for making the greatest sacrifice.”

Dansville Central School District released a statement on Thursday, following the news of her passing. That statement can be read here.

The flags at the High School were flown at half staff on Thursday to honor her memory. She was known at the high school as a hard worker and a compassionate friend, according to Superintendent Alioto. He says she excelled in all subjects and was a member of the National Honors Society, but that the arts were her passion.

The Livingston County Veteran’s Service Agency will be laying a wreath at the Veteran’s Memorial in Dansville on Saturday at 1 p.m. The American Legion and Veteran’s of Foreign Wars will be in attendance and paying their respects with a ceremony to honor the fallen airman.

A GoFundMe page that was set up in her honor raised more than $20,000 in less than 14 hours.

The area lost another soldier in June of 2011, when Cohocton native, Sgt. Devin Snyder, was killed in Afghanistan.