An obituary recounting a full and generous life is posted at the Luzerne, Pennsylvania, funeral home, along with tributes and memories from friends and loved ones, including her law school classmates. I knew of Cassie's affection for dogs, and the obituary remembers her love for her Comet and Scout. She also liked reading and kayaking, so our hobbies overlapped quite a bit. I did not know of her devotion to faith, but I am not surprised to learn that she served with World Challenge in Ecuador and instructed youth at her church in West Harwich, Massachusetts.
In lieu of flowers or gifts to honor and remember Cassie, donations are sought for the Best Friends Animal Society, an organization dedicated to the protection and rescue of animals.
Cassie passed on the same day as a death in my family, of Gloria Buzi. Gloria was a generous soul who relished retirement on Maryland's eastern shore. A great many years of age separated Gloria from 24-year-old Cassie. The difference might tempt one to a bitterness over lost potential, but I think it rather an occasion to recognize the distinctive gift and ultimately unknowable reverberations of every life.
