Tara Mahone
Tara Felice Mahone, a court designated worker in Christian County, was almost finished with her studies in criminal justice and hoped to receive her master’s degree in May. She had already earned a master’s in social work.
But now Mahone’s professional achievements will be recognized with a posthumous induction into the Kentucky Department of Family and Juvenile Services’ Hall of Fame.
Mahone died Jan. 15 of COVID-19 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. She was 48 years old, the youngest of Hopkinsville City Councilwoman Patricia Waddell-Bell’s five children.
“I was so proud of her,” Waddell-Bell said Monday evening in a telephone interview.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear took time at his Monday statewide media briefing to remember a Christian County court designated worker who died earlier this