INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — A 13-year-old girl died in a house fire early Friday morning, just two weeks after leaving the hospital after beating a form of bone cancer, according to her father. Jerry Brown ...

Jerilynn Brown died in the Fourth of July fire, which occurred in Buckner, Jackson County in Missouri Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

13 year-old Jerilynn Brown and her mother's boyfriend Marc Anthony Young Sr. were killed in the fire. "She was a beautiful soul," Jerilynn's father, Jerry Brown, shared with KSHB 41 at a Sunday vigil.