Overview
- Makenzi Kern, 26, died unexpectedly on June 8 while attending Jade Jones’s bachelorette party on the Caribbean island of St. Barthélemy.
- Her family published an obituary saying she passed from "health complications" and that she was surrounded by close friends when she died, and they do not suspect drugs, alcohol or foul play.
- Jade Jones posted a lengthy Instagram tribute calling Kern a "once-in-a-lifetime" friend and Tyrese Haliburton shared a short memorial on his Instagram Story saying, "We will always love and miss you Kenz."
- Kern was a former Iowa State University cheerleader and worked as Membership Director at the YMCA’s Armbrust Branch in Omaha, and she is survived by her parents, sister Delani Kern, and boyfriend Alan Dungan.
- No official medical examiner findings or autopsy results have been released and reporting is ongoing, with family statements and social-media tributes shaping the public response and affecting plans for Jones and Haliburton’s upcoming wedding.