Rosemary Jafarjian-Billquist was an American worker and often volunteer at WCA Hospital who lost her life after her neighbor shot her thinking that she was deer.

Born and raised in the state of New York, she grew up in the town of Sherman

with her Armenian American family. She attended Sherman High School and Sherman Central School.

She attended and graduated from Jamestown Business College with a degree in Medicine.

In 1990, her future husband, Jamie Billquist, met his future wife Rosemary at the Chautauqua Mall.

Jamie immediately fell in love with her.

The two became a couple and had been together since then, eventually tying the knot.

The two lived in Jamestown before relocating to Rosemary's hometown, Sherman, which is near the border of Pennsylvania.

At around 5:30 p.m. on November 22nd, 2017, as Rosemary went on a walk with her dogs in an open field located behind her house one of her neighbors shot and killed her with his high-powered, single shot handgun.

Thomas Jadlowski had thought that his neighbor of 200 yards away, was a deer.

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Billquist was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she was pronounced dead.

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Her neighbor has not been charged, though there is an ongoing investigation.

Jadlowski also broke the law and hunted what he thought was a deer after sunset.

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Her husband, Jamie, didn't have a Thanksgiving celebration.

He planned his wife's funeral instead at the Spitzer Funeral Home.

The viewing will take place 135 Miller St., Sherman from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday with a funeral service at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Sherman Community Church, 109 Church St.