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Jennie Dizon, 17, was going to attend the University of Cincinnati in the fall.

An artistic teenager known for her loving personality died Thursday after she was struck by a bolt of lightning.

Jennie Dizon, 17, took her younger siblings to their dentist appointment that afternoon and then went to nearby O’Brien Park to write in her journal, her family told the Chicago Tribune.

Officials said the teenager was unconscious and not breathing when they found her about 5 p.m., NBC Chicago reported. The DuPage County Coroner’s Office determined that she had been killed by electrocution from a lightning strike.

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Police say the teenager was alone at the time, but a neighbor saw the lightning and noticed then a body in the park.

She was supposed to graduate Sunday from Benet Academy in Lisle, Ill. Now, her grieving family will hold the first part of her wake that night instead.

“Jennie is our angel,” said Marietta Dizon, Jennie’s mother. “She has a golden heart. Whoever has met her, she has surely touched your heart. I think God had called her. We just have to place our whole trust in him.”

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Jennie Dizon’s heartbroken mother described her daughter as an ‘angel’ who had a ‘golden heart.’

Emmeline Dizon tried calling her sister’s cellphone multiple times Thursday, but there was no answer. She and her 14-year-old brother Michael saw the police in O’Brien Park when they were walking home from the dentist, but they didn’t find out about what happened to their sister until later.

Benet Academy said in an online statement that the school community shared their memories of Jennie Dizon and recalled “her many talents, her unique gifts and her wonderful personality.”

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The DuPage County Coroner Office’s report says Jennie Dizon’s death was ‘consistent with a lightning strike.’

“Though she was taken from us much too soon, we trust that she is now in God’s loving embrace,” the post read.

Jennie Dizon had planned to travel to Europe this summer and was to attend the University of Cincinnati in the fall to study theater production.

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The park has a lightning warning siren, but it is unknown if Jennie Dizon ignored it or if it sounded too late.

“She graduated from life, I guess,” said her father, Eric Dizon.

Jennie is the sixth person to be fatally struck by lightning in 2013, according to National Weather Service data.