Cassilia Sherman

March 13, 1970 - March 15, 2023

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Cassie Sherman passed on March 15th, The Ides of March, two days after her 53rd birthday. She was ultimately brought down by the toxic blend of mental illness & homelessness. Prior to that tragic day so much had happened. She was charismatic & beloved by so many of her classmates at Woodway HS back in the mid-1980s. And delivered a funny & memorable speech to the graduating class of 1988. After a number of years attending UC Santa Cruz & living in a few different cities, she & her boyfriend, Sennid, had a child. Cassie fought tooth & nail to bring life & breath to her son. She raised him within the confines of freedom & turbulence. Stability wasn't in the cards. She was sidetracked & derailed so often by her mental disorder but she dug in & gave her boy love, admiration, & confidence. He has emerged from a nomadic childhood as remarkably kind, brilliant, & self-reliant. His was anything but a helicopter childhood. She maintained her mothering of Theo throughout difficult times because, at her core, Cassie was goodness personified. And that's what's embedded in Theo. He recalls her baking, especially sweets & chocolate most of all. The girl loved chocolate, especially from See’s, milk chocolate, of

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