Like many of the wait staff at the Branches Restaurant at Foxwoods Resort Casino, Kristen McQuarrie was a single mother.

But perhaps unlike the others, she had a strained relationship with her mother, and she didn't know her father.

"We knew she didn't have much family, so we took over as family for her," Rayna Reynolds, a co-worker, told The Providence Journal.

"Her mother would never tell her who her dad was," Reynolds continued. "She was trying to find herself and that one little piece was missing."

McQuarrie, 37, of Coventry, was a fun-loving person who loved concerts and kept a display of all her ticket stubs.

"I think she's been to every ûconcertý there ever was," said Agnes McQuarrie, her former mother-in-law.

McQuarrie grew up in Lynn and Saugus, Mass.

She lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, before settling in Coventry.