Laura Splotch. On Sunday, Dec. 1, a celebration of Seneng’s life was held. At the service, she was approached by some of the teachers from Bryant Middle School about installing a mural at the ...

Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old California school teacher, died on Nov. 22, weeks after she was bitten by a bat in her classroom; Her friend Laura Splotch tells PEOPLE that she was able to spend some ...

Leah Seneng, 60, was wounded after she unexpectedly found the animal in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos back in October, Laura Splotch, Seneng’s friend told local ABC ...

Seneng, 60, found a bat in her classroom in mid-October, her friend Laura Splotch told KFSN-TV. She tried to scoop it up and take it outside but it bit her, Splotch said.

Laura Splotch has known Leah for about 15 years when their kids became friends in Kindergarten. Splotch said it was Leah's kind demeanor and love for the arts that bonded the two women.

Courtesy Laura Splotch. Even when Seneng felt a light prick from the bat, it didn’t cross her mind that she might have been bitten and infected with a deadly disease, Splotch said.

Courtesy Laura Splotch. CNN — A California art teacher died from rabies November 22, about a month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom.

Laura Splotch told KFSN-TV that her friend, 60-year-old Leah Seneng, is the woman who contracted rabies and died on Nov. 22. Seneng was a teacher at Byrant Middle School in Dos Palos, California, ...

Courtesy Laura Splotch. The victim was exposed to rabies in mid-October, went to a Fresno County emergency room about five weeks later, ...

Splotch organized a GoFundMe that has raised roughly $1,500 for Seneng’s funeral expenses, as of Thursday. 4 One of Seneng’s friends set up a GoFundMe after her death.

"I don't know if she thought it was dead or what," Laura Splotch, a friend of the victim Leah Seneng, told KFSN A California middle school teacher has died after she was bitten by a bat inside her ...

Leah Seneng, 60, was wounded after she unexpectedly found the animal in her classroom at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos back in October, Laura Splotch, Seneng’s friend told local ABC ...