At her funeral, friends and family remember the boy and the woman he transitioned into.


In the end they mourned for two, the shy boy who was born Jeffery Bryan Schley and the bold woman he became, Anna Alexandre.
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The one they called Anna died last Thursday after the 27-year-old's car veered off Interstate 95 into a tree, just south of Butler Boulevard. The Florida Highway Patrol is still investigating the crash.

Before graduating from Orange Park High School, the insecure teenager entered the world of drag at a local nightclub in the late 1990s. He found acceptance there along with a best friend, China, and a "drag mother," or mentor, Sondra Todd.