SILVANA — Jessica and Jennifer Frable were close, even for twins.
The two shared everything — a love of sports, a major at Washington State University, even a voice.
“I couldn’t tell them apart on the phone,” Jessie’s father Glenn Frable said. “When they were younger, even I had a hard time telling them apart.”
Jessica Frable, known affectionately throughout the Arlington and Silvana areas as Jessie, passed away Sept. 24 at the age of 22.
More than 300 people attended Frable’s memorial service Oct. 3 at the Byrnes Performing Arts Center at Arlington High School.
Glenn Frable said the service was originally going to take place at Immaculate Conception Church.
“There were too many folks who wanted to be there,” Jessie’s mother Joan Frable said. “We can’t tell you how much that meant.”
Jessie Frable was perhaps best known in the Arlington area for being Arlington High School’s co-valedictorian with her sister, Jenny, in 2005 when the twins graduated.
“That was a great moment when the two were giving their speech at graduation,” Joan Glenn said. “It was amazing to have two daughters being named co-valedictorian.”
Growing up in the family’s home in Silvana, Jessie Frable was known as “the quiet one” of the two girls, Jenny Frable said.
“We would always finish each others’ sentences,” Jenny Frable said.
Jessie took part in a number of activities in high school and college. She took up the clarinet in the fifth grade and played in school bands until high school.
She also played tennis on the high school team with her sister.
“We tried playing doubles together and it just didn’t work out,” Jenny Frable said with a smile.
Jessie Frable also took part in cross country, and completed a half marathon while she was in high school.
Jessie and Jenny Frable decided to stay together after high school and chose to attend WSU.
The Frable sisters both received bachelor of arts degrees in business administration in 2008.
Jessie Frable graduated Summa Cum Laude and carried the college’s flag at her commencement ceremony.
“Jessie touched so many lives in her 22 years,” Joan Frable said.