NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A brilliant, kind, and compassionate soul. That's how the community is remembering a Clarksville native that was killed in the D.C. plane crash. Sarah Best left a legacy here ...

As many are paying tribute to Sarah Best, the former Pearl-Cohn High School teacher, Vanderbilt University graduate and Clarksville native who died in Wednesday night’s plane crash in Washington ...

As many are paying tribute to Sarah Best, the former Pearl-Cohn High School teacher, Vanderbilt University graduate and Clarksville native who died in Wednesday night’s plane crash in Washington D.C., ...

Best was 2009 valedictorian at Northeast High School in Clarksville ... “She was so talented at everything she did,” former Pearl-Cohn teacher Kathleen Turnmire said.

Before working in D.C., years ago a spokesperson for Metro Nashville Public Schools says Sarah worked as a math teacher at Pearl-Cohn High School for several years. One of her former students says ...