A Wahoo woman is being remembered for her fun,caring nature. Tuesday, 64-year-old Maralee Taylor was killed in a crash outside Fremont on Highway 77.

Taylor and her husband had owned the Wahoo Bakery for 30 years. Baker Jim Slosser says he was 14 when he started working for the Taylors. He says Maralee was like a second mother to him.

"She was so many things to so many people," said Slosser. "She was always there, not only for her own family, but anybody who needed anything. They knew they could just get ahold of her and it would be taken care of."

Slosser tells Channel 6 News the couple sold the bakery when Mr. Taylor's health started to decline seven years ago. He says Maralee had just dropped her husband off for dialysis and was on her way to work at the Hospital at the time of the crash.

The crash involved a semi-truck and a passenger vehicle and closed a portion of Highway 77 Tuesday morning. The Saunders County Sheriff told Channel Six News Taylor was pronounced dead at the scene.

A witness said Maralee Taylor was passing another car, as the semi was in the on-coming lane. It was too late for either to stop. Sheriff Stukenholtz confirms that's what investigators believe happened.

The truck driver, 66-year-old Allen Naprstek, was not seriously injured.