Emmy poses with her father, Hal Sigtryggsson, at her high school graduation in 2022. Courtesy | Spencer Sigtryggsson
More than a dozen Hillsdale students, including several women from the Pi Beta Phi sorority, traveled to Blacksburg, Virginia, this past weekend for Emerson Sigtryggsson’s memorial service. Sigtryggsson was a junior who died Sept. 8 after she was diagnosed with cancer in early August.
“I got a text from someone that said Emmy’s name was synonymous with the word life, and that will never change, and that is so true,” senior Phoebe Vanheyningen said. “The way that I think everybody saw her is just alive, because that’s who she was. She made you aware that she existed, whether or not you liked it.”…