Calling hours are from 2-6 p.m. Sunday at Meeks Mortuary, 415 E. Washington St, Muncie, IN 47305 (765) 288-6669.
The funeral is at High Street United Methodist Church, 219 South High Street,Muncie, IN 47305, on Monday at 1 p.m.
The family is asking that instead of flowers, donations be made in Alyssa's name. Information on making donations will be available at the viewing and funeral.
Junior Alyssa Couch lived life to help others. She was on her way to help tutor someone when she died Wednesday night.
"Everything she ever did was trying to help somebody else," senior friend Stephanie Marks said.
Couch was a pre-med major because she wanted to help people. She was in the process of applying to Purdue University to become a pharmacist.
She was very goal driven and was set on graduating a year early so she could fulfill her dream of going to pharmaceutical school, her roommate, junior Kendra Craycroft, said.
Even at work Couch was more worried about making her employees happy than making money.
Couch had been working at Walgreens for four weeks and hadn't been paid yet. Her mother told her she should check to see if there had been a mix-up but Couch was afraid to ask Walgreens about her paycheck because she didn't want her boss to think she was just working there for the money, Marks said.
Craycroft said working at Walgreens had helped Couch decide she wanted to become a pharmacist.
"She liked being able to talk to people and help them," Craycraft said. "She liked being able to get them what they needed to make them feel better."
Couch was also very involved with her church, helping out in the nursery and going on a lot of mission trips.
"Going on mission trips was one of her favorite things to do," Marks said. "Her faith was probably the most important thing in her life."
She had traveled to Mexico to help with a medical program, to Brazil to help with a church mission trip and to Thailand this summer to help teach English.
Couch also had a great love for pets. Over the years she has had dogs, hamsters and even goats.
"Just about any type of pet you can think of she would have and take care of," Craycroft said.
She had pet goats when she was little and ended up with 13 of them before her parents decided they had to give them away.
Couch's friends agreed she was a happy, out-going person who tried to always look on the bright side of life.
"She always made us laugh," junior April Shuman said. "She was just really funny and really caring."
Marks said Couch was in the honors college and was the smartest person she knew, but also one of the most clueless at times.
"She had no common sense," Marks said. "That's what people are going to remember. You can't imagine how smart she is by how she acted sometimes. You wouldn't have pegged her for growing up to be a doctor."
But Couch wanted to serve others and that's what she did.
Shuman remembered when she totalled her car and Couch brought her a care package of funny gifts.
"She was really worried about me," Shuman said. "She pretty much always put everybody else before herself."
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