John Ball Zoo gives grieving family free season to honor late mom's wish

John Ball Zoo gives grieving family free season to honor late mom's wish

Jessica Martin and her family visited John Ball Zoo for the first time this month since losing her mother to cancer earlier this year and they did it with a little help from the zoo itself. Before her cancer diagnosis, Martin's mother had purchased the entire family a zoo membership. She never got to use it."She was kind of upset that we never, like, made it here, and she would talk about it a lot," Martin said. After her mother, Michelle Martin…