Kind-hearted. Caring. Compassionate. Ambitious.

These were just some of the words used to describe 34-year-old Andrea Bicari, the married, mother-of-one whose life was tragically cut short when she was crushed as she sat in her car at the Bermuda College yesterday morning.

"Everybody loved her. She was well-liked," said her aunt, Beverley Bennett. "She was a go-getter. When her mind was made up to do something, she did it."

"I'm very sad with her being gone," her husband Roan Roan Bicari told The Royal Gazette, as he held their five-year-old daughter, Asha, in his arms. "Right now I'm trying to cope with everything that's happened."

As he reflected on his wife, Mr. Bicari said she always enjoyed being around children and often formed lasting relationships with them.

"She always had a love for children and loved other people's as much as she loved our daughter," he said.

Many of her family members said they were still in shock with what happened.

"It just hasn't hit home yet," said her cousin, Natalie Simmons.

"We feel so empty. She was a good person," said one of her 20 siblings, Tunya Trott. "The whole family is devastated."

As are her colleagues at The Education Centre (TEC), where Mrs. Bicari worked as a paraprofessional.

While his staff was too distraught to speak to The Royal Gazette, TEC director Declan Harris said the education community had lost a great person.

Mr. Harris said he met Mrs. Bicari when she was deputy-principal at Somersfield Montessori School.

"Andrea said she was interested in helping to change the population of the students we worked with," he said. "In October, she started with us and already she had forged meaningful relationships with our students."

She had so much compassion for her students, Mr. Harris said, that he was working with her to be a bit more firm.

"One of the hardest things sometimes is that a teacher at TEC needs to learn to be soft, with Andrea, I was working with her to be tougher.

"And, true to her persona, she was in the process of assisting a student once again when she passed."

It is believed that Mrs. Bicari was on her cell phone trying to help a student obtain a pass needed in order for them to sit a mock GED exam. Mrs. Bicari was due to serve as an invigilator.

According to her oldest sister, Charlotte Warren, this was a deed typical of

Mrs. Bicari.

"She was one of God's angels sent down to take care of all children. She was always smiling. You could see that she had a lot of love in her heart for everybody."

But although he said he was "pretty good right now", Mrs. Bicari's father, Llewllyn Trott

said he is not look forward to his daughter's funeral.

"It's going to hurt to have to bury my daughter. She was my princess."