There was a final curtain call for former art and theater teacher Kate Muldoon after she lost her third bout with cancer.

For thirty years, Kate was the glue that kept the props in the theater room together. The memory of her role carried on for many.

"She just had that big of a mark, and her legacy is beyond the scope of what we can even understand," Meagan Millar said, a teacher for Niagara Falls School District.

"She was truly what I consider to be a pillar of the community not only at Niagara Falls High School, but in Niagara Falls," said Amy Chiarella, a teacher with Niagara Falls School District.

For many families during this time, traditional funerals are not being held due to the coronavirus pandemic. Former students say they knew they had to do something to honor Kate's memory.

"We felt really upset that someone this amazing couldn't have a funeral with everything that's going on in the world right now," Millar said.

While singing songs from her favorite musicals on her family’s lawn, leaving bouquets of flowers and decorated signs, people that worked with Kate say, the mark she left on the community will never diminish, even behind the curtain.

"I'm telling my students who my mentor was in theater, so they're learning about her even though they might have never met her. The legacy of always being this bright shining spirit and her smile and her laugh was infectious and I think that's going to be left on everyone," Millar said.