Alexa Frances Kelter

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Alexa Frances Kelter

June 24, 2001 ~ October 23, 2023

With a heavy heart, our beloved Alexa Frances Kelter, after fighting an exemplary battle against Synovial Sarcoma, took her last breath in the early hours of October 23, 2023. She passed away at our home with family at her side. No words were left unsaid, and we did anything and everything to keep her comfortable, let her know how loved and supported she was and that we were proud of her every minute of every day. In her short 22 years of life, she taught us important life lessons. Alexa did not accept defeat, fought her battles privately and continued to surprise everyone with all she accomplished. She showed tenacious grit and defied odds while enduring several surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation and lengthy hospital admissions.

Alexa was a goal-oriented person but was quiet in her pursuit of those goals…never boasting, always helping others to reach their goals and valued deep personal connections. She participated fully at Santa Clara University, where she worked as a calculus and analytic geometry grader, was co-president of Women in STEM, was VP of outreach and on campus collaborations for her SCU Finance Association, was an intermediate microeconomics teaching assistant and secured a summer internship with a post-graduation offer for employment. She graduated summa cum laude this June and received a top honor in her economics department. She was an organizer, making her friends and family feel valued and special, planning fun things to do and making each day count. The words that everyone collectively would use to describe her would be loving and kind. She left indelible impressions with many across her lifetime. She was highly respected, loved and cherished.

Being with Alexa during her three-year battle has been a life-changing event for us. We learned so much from her. God was shining through her and we could feel the divine presence and aura. She was extraordinary. Please take inspiration, belief and hope from our daughter, who actually has not died and will never die.

We ask that family and friends join her father, Ken; her mother, Laura; and her older sister Brynn in celebrating Alexa’s life on November 4, 2023, at St. John the Baptist Parish, 300 East 11800 South, in Draper. 1:30 p.m. Viewing and recitation of the rosary in the gathering space with a celebration of the funeral Mass following at 2 p.m. We welcome everyone to our home for a reception afterwards.