That's true of Anna Armstrong White.

"She wasn't caught up in worldly things," says Barbara White of her daughter Anna. "But she knew the value of people."

Anna graduated from Sammamish High School and then went to Los Angeles to study for a career in fashion design. Two days before Anna would've turned 22, her mother got a devastating phone call.

"No one thinks this is going to happen to them. Ever. And then it does," she says.

It happened outside a radio station where Anna had gone with friends, hoping to see pop star Justin Timberlake.

Anna turned down the advances of a drunk man who approached her on the sidewalk. He got into his truck, pointed it towards and Anna, and floored it.

"He killed her," says White. "Then he drug her four blocks down the street until her body disengaged from the truck and he ran over her a couple times. Then he left her to die on the street."

The man was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Barbara White could be angry and vengeful. Instead, she's hopeful.

She created "Anna's Ride Home" - a program that offers free taxi rides for people too drunk to drive.

The newest bar to sign up: Cowgirls, Inc. in Pioneer Square.

"It's time to stop losing people. Really," says Kealy Marquis, Manager of the bar. "And being accountable for it. We want to make sure our guests get home safely and have a good time."

They already know that it works. The Anna Armstrong White Foundation monitors how many drunk driving arrests are tied to a particular bar.

After introducing Anna's Ride Home, they've seen up to a 40 percent drop.

Here's how it works: Bartenders and servers keep an eye on customers who've had too much to drink.

They tell them about the program, and each table has additional information on it. Anyone who wants a voucher for a cab ride home just needs to ask for it.

The bar and the Foundation split the bill.

"Whenever I get the bill from the cab company, I think, 'Yes! We kept them off the road.' Somebody didn't get the call," says White. "And I'm so grateful that we have the opportunity to do something."

She touched so many lives. That's true of Anna Armstrong White in her life and in her death.

The Foundation has corporate sponsorship from Coors Brewing but still relies on charitable donations to pay for the taxi rides.

To learn more about how to help, go to www.annaarmstrongwhite.org

There will also be a 5K Run/Walk to benefit the Foundation on September 11, 2004. That would have been Anna's 24th birthday.