Support Jennifer's Scholarship at the Band Blast

Good news: the Jennifer Harber Memorial Scholarship is one of 12 Northern Kentucky non-profits participating in an upcoming fundraising event.

The Band of Helping Hands will perform live at The Newport Syndicate on November 1, 2013. The show begins at 7:30 pm, and tickets cost $25 each.

The event will feature G.Miles and the Hitmen, Jamison Road, 3 Sheets, Southern Highway,
and Brad Hatfield Band.

To donate, you must visit THIS SITE, and select our organization from the drop-down menu to ensure the money gets directed to the scholarship. You can also click on the image below to get to the page itself.

Note: there is a typo on the Band of Helping Hands website. So please select the "Jennifer Harper Memorial Scholarship" when making your donation.

About Jennifer: Carefree from the Beginning

Jennifer Harber was born May 4, 1981, the second child Ed and Beverly Harber. She was the younger sister to Emily Harber Rucker. At the time of her passing, she was a student at Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

Jen was carefree from the moment she could walk. One favorite memory is the time she and her family went camping in Brookville with a church group. According to Emily, the girls were being changed out of their wet bathing suits in a tent by their mother. Once Bev turned her back, Jen (then age four), took off out of the tent, streaking around the campground as naked as the day she was born ... and loving it.

Scholarship benefit remembers murder victim

The local Cincinnati news station Fox 19 featured Jennifer's story and fundraiser in June 2010.

You can read the piece HERE.

Jennifer featured in local newspaper

The Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper wrote an article Jennifer and her family. You can read about it HERE.

Family honors slain daughter with scholarship

By Julie Weckerlein
Jennifer Harber Memorial Scholarship Fund

FORT THOMAS, Ky. -- It's been nearly 15 years since 17-year-old Jennifer Harber was killed, but to her friends and family, her memory is still very much alive.

"My sister was so full of life," said Emily Harber Rucker of Fort Thomas, Jennifer's older sister. "She was the type of girl that if you met her, you didn't forget her. She was the type of kid who would do anything for a laugh, but never at the expense of another person. She accepted everyone and put everything out there for her friends and family."

It was that unforgettable and giving personality that drove Bev and Ed Harber to start the Jennifer Harber Memorial Scholarship Fun in honor of their daughter, who was a junior at Highlands High School at the time of her death. They wanted the scholarship to go to students similar to Jennifer, who played soccer and sang in her school's chorus.

"Jennifer had big dreams and she knew what she wanted to do," said Emily. "Even though she didn't have the best grades in her class, she was very bright. She wanted to become an emergency medical technician and volunteer. Ultimately, she wanted to go into medicine, and she had it all figured out, what classes she would need in college and what steps she had to take to get there."