Merced mom holds vigil after losing teen daughter to drinking and driving 'She was my rock and she was my everything and now she's gone because she decided to drink and drive.' KFSN Share: Her mother, Tracy Mansfield, is now hoping her daughter's story will spare others from heartbreak. "She was my rock and she was my everything and now she's gone because she decided to drink and drive," Mansfield says. "I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd be burying my 19-year-old daughter." Mansfield says her daughter died on December 5th. Merced Police responded to a report of a car in Bear Creek.