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To: TimF who wrote (6908)	3/28/2008 3:35:46 PM
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Jayci Yaeger loses cancer battle Friday morning By HILARY KINDSCHUH / Lincoln Journal Star Friday, Mar 28, 2008 - 01:56:05 pm CDT Information about whether 10-year-old Jayci Yaeger’s incarcerated father will be permitted to attend her funeral will not be released prior to her funeral services. “That information is not something we’d provide prior to an actual trip, similar to previous trips,” said Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley. Jayci lost her seven-year-struggle with brain cancer Friday morning, said her uncle, Ed Yaeger. She did live long enough to see her father for about 45 minutes on Wednesday, when guards escorted him to the Lincoln hospice where she lay in a hospital bed. The family had no specific advance notice of the escorted visit. Billingsley said that was for safety and security reasons. The warden at the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton will be the one to decide whether Jason Yaeger can attend Jayci’s funeral, Billingsley said. “The institution considers each case on its own basis,” she said. Jayci’s family says her father, Jason Yaeger, who is serving a 5 1/2- year drug sentence in a federal prison in Yankton, S.D., will be appealing to authorities to let him attend his daughter’s funeral. Before Jayci died, Jason Yaeger had appealed to prison authorities and the courts -- and even asked President Bush for clemency -- to be transferred to halfway house closer to Nebraska in order to spend time with his daughter. A federal judge denied a motion to intervene in Jason Yaeger’s case, his brother said. The family had not heard anything from officials as of late Friday morning. Jayci’s mother, Vonda, and her grandmother were at the hospice with her when she died, Ed Yaeger said. Her father was notified right away, Ed Yaeger said. “I spoke with him and he’s doing as well as he can be I guess,” Ed Yaeger said. “He’s grieving ... Yet at the same time he also is working on trying to get himself down here for the funeral.” Funeral arrangements are pending, Yaeger said. “We would like to appeal to the judge and to the U.S. attorney ... and warden to do what’s right and allow Jason to come down here for the funeral,” he said. Jason Yaeger is scheduled to be released next year. Reach Hilary Kindschuh at 473-7120 or hkindschuh@journalstar.com. journalstar.com