Leah Karp, a 20-year-old junior at Kent State University, was killed in a head-on collision with another driver over the weekend. Karp was on her way to visit her aunt when another driver, Brandon Boles age 22, struck her. Boles was driving with a suspended license and had been drinking before the accident.

Karp’s funeral was 2 p.m. on Tuesday at Temple Israel in Dayton, Ohio. According to her obituary, she is survived by her parents, Lynette and Robert Karp, along with two brothers and four grandparents.

Junior communications major Melody Allison lived with Karp in Centennial Court C as suite-mates. She said Karp had an indescribable laugh, and they would always joke about graduating and leaving Kent.

Allison and Karp laughed about how her teeth-whitening tube looked like a syringe and the possibility of Karp being a “druggie.”

“And she was addicted to plucking her eyebrows — plucking her eyebrows and whitening her teeth. She couldn’t stop,” [Karp’s friend Sarah] Nusinow said with a laugh.

Once while Karp was at home sick, Nusinow finagled her way into Karp’s residence hall bedroom and rescued her beloved pets — a couple hermit crabs.

Karp couldn’t bear the thought of her pets going without care, so Nusinow created a story about needing her friend’s computer, and after a little persuading of residence hall personnel, got permission to enter Karp’s room. Someone distracted the residence hall employee who was monitoring them, while Nusinow snuck the crabs out of the room.

The accident occurred at the crest of a hill, according to police reports. Karp had no time to react to Boles car.