A local woman and her family have set up a memorial fund to benefit the children of her murdered sister.
Janet Valliere, of Milan, and members of her family, have set up the fund in memory of her sister, Jennifer Lessard. Lessard was found murdered in Gray, Maine, in Monday.
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