If Laura Schweigman had extra, she made sure to give it to someone in need.

Her sister, Kimberly, said that included everything from providing water and pillows for the unhoused people outside Laura’s apartment to giving her own sibling an internship opportunity on the TV series “The Wire.”

“From script writing to dailies, to rewriting the script and editing, to just releasing it and then wrapping up a show,“ Kimberly said of her duties helping on set. “I decided that was not for me. But what I did learn is that I was capable, and she made sure that I knew I was capable.”

Schweigman, a television producer known for her work on shows like “The Wire,” “Treme,” “The Deuce” and “Generation Kill,” died Aug. 10 surrounded by loved ones at her parents’ home in Maryland after a years-long struggle with cancer. She was 44.

One of Schweigman’s first projects working in the television industry was as a production assistant documenting pick-ups and drop-offs on “The Critical Hour: Shock Trauma,” according to her brother Andrew.

She began working as a writer’s office assistant on the third season of HBO’s gritty crime drama “The Wire,” where she met David Simon, the show’s creator and her friend.

Within a year, Schweigman’s sincerity and commitment to her projects led to a promotion as Simon’s production assistant.

“She had a lot of charm, and she inspired a lot of loyalty because she was so sincere and so committed and she didn’t want anything to go wrong — which is great training for the producer that she became,” Simon said.

Simon recalled Schweigman’s confidence and quiet humor at work. During moments on set when he was being “hyperbolic,” he said, she had a way of simply looking at him and saying his name to calm him down.

Kimberly said her sister’s dedication and wisdom influenced the spaces Schweigman traversed and the people she met. As the oldest of three siblings in a tight-knit family, Schweigman was always adept at making things happen, Andrew said, whether that was chaperoning Andrew’s field trip to the Statue of Liberty to being Kimberly’s dance teacher.

“She was a teacher — she taught me most things in my life,” Kimberly said. “She taught her teachers things, too, like how to be able to be excellent and get the job done, but also do it kindly.”

Despite her growing up in Baltimore County and her work on Baltimore-set shows, many who knew Schweigman can identify the transformative moment that was her move to New Orleans to begin production on “Treme.”

“Yeah, once she moved down there it was over,” Andrew said.

Simon said Schweigman became ingrained in the culture and community in New Orleans, consolidating unspent production funds to donate to community charities like The Roots of Music and the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic.

Schweigman was instrumental in doing this type of work in Baltimore during “The Wire” with the Parks and People Foundation, too, Simon said.

And though Schweigman loved coming home to Baltimore and seeing how things changed or what was new, her heart was in New Orleans, Kimberly said.

Schweigman, part of the first all-women Mardi Gras Krewe of Muses, even gave Simon a specially decorated high heel.

“She made one that was rooted in homicide in ‘The Wire’ — it was decorated with everything from blood spatter to crime scene tape,” Simon said. “She made sure to hand that one to me.”

Andrew said his family has no shortage of Mardi Gras beads at home. Schweigman would use his Amazon account, so his order history was always filled with wild costumes and props in green and gold or colored Figment-purple, Schweigman’s favorite Disney character. Now, the items are mementos to the fun time and loving aura she brought.

“She really wanted the boys to remember her, my boys and my brother’s [Bernard Schweigman III’s]. And my youngest is 3 years old and she was terrified he wouldn’t remember [her],” Andrew said. “She just didn’t want to be forgotten.”

Because Schweigman was in New Orleans and Kimberly moved to Los Angeles from Maryland, they made sure to make time for even the smallest moments to exchange with one another.

Kimberly said she recently listened to one of her sister’s voicemails, in which Schweigman had called to complain about not being able to find a parking spot.

“She was always there for an ear, for a cry or complaint or just to talk and talk about nothing really,” Kimberly said.

Schweigman’s sister remembers all the fun moments, too, including one particular visit to New Orleans that included midnight zydeco dancing at Rock ‘N’ Bowl after a “20-minute disco nap” coming from lunch with friends, and estate sales. “I couldn’t keep up with her,” she said.

“She loved to have fun, she loved her family and her friends, and she knew that the most important things in her life were not monetary,” Kimberly said. “She took every minute she could and lived it to the fullest.”

A memorial service for Schweigman will be held Sunday at 5 p.m. at the McComas Celebration of Life Center at 1114 Baldwin Mill Road in Jarrettsville, Maryland.