NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — A 22-year-old woman has become Hamilton County’s first H1N1-related death.

Amber Remmel died of the H1N1 flu, according to the Rev. Mitchell Haynes of Green Valley Church of Christ in Noblesville. Hers was one of two H1N1 deaths reported Friday in Indiana.

Hamilton County health officials confirmed Friday that a person had died of H1N1 flu but declined to provide details. Remmel died Tuesday.

Remmel’s grandmother, Viola Vivian Gregory, said the family is still trying to accept the sudden loss of someone so young. She called Remmel “one of my favorite people.”

“She was happy, she was loving and she was just nice to be with,” Gregory said.

Remmel was two months pregnant. She would have had a boy, Gregory said.

Remmel graduated from Hamilton Southeastern High School in 2006 and was a member of the church’s youth group while in high school, Haynes said.

He will lead a service for Remmel at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Randall&Roberts Funeral Home.

The other H1N1 death reported Friday occurred in Allen County. Dr. Deborah McMahan, the county’s health commissioner, said the victim was a middle-aged woman.

Since June, H1N1 has claimed the lives of 12 Hoosiers, including two children from Boone and Hendricks counties. In addition, a Kansas FFA member who was at the national convention in Indianapolis died Sunday.

As the deaths climb, health agencies in the metro area must deal with a shortage of H1N1 vaccine. The Hamilton County department has received 18,400 doses, including 6,200 in the past week.

The county plans free public clinics when enough vaccine arrives. But the shortage forced it to cancel clinics planned this week in Hamilton Southeastern Schools.

In Hendricks County on Friday, health and school officials said they also were canceling plans for school clinics.

Small shipments of the vaccine have been received at the county Health Department in Danville. However, it is far short of the 15,000 doses needed to vaccinate all county schoolchildren with signed parental permission slips.

Call Star reporter Vic Ryckaert at (317) 444-2761.