Chloe Love Scholarship Fund

This scholarship will help one graduating senior at Milford High School every year for five years, starting with the Class of 2026. These students will be taking a non-college career path upon graduation into a trade, apprenticeship, employment, etc., just like Chloe. Here is Chloe's story.

In the words of Chloe's mom, Chassity:

A "Force of Nature" is a person whose energy and determination make them hard to oppose. I say, that would be the definition of our Chloe Love.

Chloe Nicole Love was born March 8, 2005, and was a precocious child from the get-go. "Why?" was her favorite question and "No" was her favorite answer. Chloe was curious. She never wanted to sit still--she wanted to learn everything she could about anything, as fast as she could, and then she was always on to the next thing. She had a zest for life, and even as a small child, she was such an old soul.

Life was not always easy for Chloe, and she showed incredible strength through it all. She battled many things, but she always did it with a tenacity that is hard to find in someone her age. Chloe could do anything she put her mind to: cheerleading, singing, dancing, skateboarding, any type of job, any type of sport. She was a lover, a great friend, a phenomenon at making someone feel seen and heard. Chloe was a fighter, but above all else, she was determined.

Chloe wanted nothing more than to graduate high school and it wasn't the easiest. It was actually her hardest fight, but she fought it every day, and she was so excited to graduate. Nothing was ever going to stop her from achieving this. Chloe's graduation day, to this day, was one of her proudest moments. When nobody else thought that she could do it, she knew that she could. She would say, "Making bank, grades going up, get on my level." She never one time doubted herself that graduating wasn't within her grasp. She even had a countdown. She never let anybody tell her that she could not do it and she did it with flying colors. She was so proud of herself. After graduation, she kept amazing us: she became a daycare teacher and inspired so many little minds to make a change just like she did.

Chloe changed not only her own life but our world in the short time that we were given the gift of her. That's just who she was. She loved like no other, she made you feel special about yourself, she made you feel like the only person in the room when she was talking to you, & she was always pushing you to be better.

Chloe passed away in October 2024 in a car accident.

We hope that this scholarship helps her change somebody else's life the way she changed ours.

In Kristin's words:

I believe most school administrators would tell you they chose the role because they felt they could do more for students and families; that they could help affect change on a grander scale.

Chloe was in my first graduating class (2023) as an administrator. I held many hands to get to that stage–some I pushed, some I dragged, and others, I just raised them up and loved them right through. That was Chloe Love. Her mom is right: Chloe had the world against her, but Chloe always rose to the occasion. She fought back. On her first graduation day in March, our office threw her a party–balloons and cupcakes and gifts. She earned so much more than her diploma. On her actual graduation day, some girls invited her to be in a TikTok with us. The song’s lyrics? “All I want to be and all I ever want to be is somebody to you.” She was somebody. In the end, regardless of our faults, mistakes and failures, we are always someone’s daughter, someone’s friend, someone’s teacher, someone’s family. And we all deserve a second chance.

Since her passing in October of 2024, I have had the desire to honor her memory. A few weeks ago, I met someone by happenstance, who shared that her son had Chloe as a preschool teacher. “He freaking adored her,” she said, “And he couldn’t say ‘Chloe’ so he called her ‘Miss Bluey.’” And that’s when it came to me (I tell Chloe's mom, Chassity, I often say "Hi Chloe" when I sense her little nudges). I wanted to honor Chloe's memory by giving students like her a fighting chance as they graduate high school: a student needing a change, going directly into the work-force, doing things they love, figuring out what path to take; a student who needs a second--or third or fourth or twentieth--chance.

The Chloe Love Memorial Scholarship will give at least $1,000 to a graduating Milford High School student each year over the next five years, starting with my next graduating class, the Class of 2026. We are dreaming big and doing the darn thing; we are hoping to change lives, just like Chloe.