Phyllis Cassidy
Passed: November 11, 2021
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Phyllis Cassidy
Passed: November 11, 2021
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Phyllis Jean Cassidy, 67, of Goodyear, AZ passed away on Nov. 11, 2021 in Pebble Creek, AZ
Phyllis was born in Yakima, WA on September 20, 1954. She was a 1973 graduate of Wapato High School and moved to Seattle in 1985 where she joined an insurance brokerage as an Account Service Representative. She later accepted an underwriting position at American States Insurance Company (now Liberty Mutual Insurance Company) and was later promoted to Underwriting Specialist. After her successful career at Liberty Mutual, Phyllis retired in March, 2017.
Phyllis loved to tell the story of how she met her husband Jim in 1987 at a bachelor auction where he was one of the bachelors. They later married in 1992. They lived in the Federal Way area of Washington until Jim’s retirement when they moved to Pebble Creek, AZ in March, 2021.
Phyllis was an avid gardener and had beautiful outdoor flower displays every year. Phyllis also loved to cook and entertain. Phyllis loved to decorate her home, especially for the holidays and went all out for Christmas.
Phyllis was known for her quick wit, love of life, her generosity, her infectious and sassy personality and her endearing and contagious laugh. While she enjoyed making new friends, she always treasured all of her friends, and each knew they had a special place in her heart. She was a shining light to all who knew her and she will be deeply missed.
Phyllis is survived by her husband, Jim and her beloved dog Augie, her sisters in law and their husbands, Susan Allman and her husband Mark, Paula Cassidy and her husband Jon Speltz, Caroline Maughan and her husband Mark and Mary Sandstrom and her husband Scott. As well as nieces and nephews.
10 responses to Phyllis Cassidy
Jim says:
November 19, 2021
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side
spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and
strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs
like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky
come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!”
“Gone where?”
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large
in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my
side and she is just as able to bear the load of living
freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at
the moment when someone at my side says:
“There, she is
gone!”
There are other eyes watching her coming, and
other voices ready to take up the glad shout:
“Here she
comes!”
And that is dying.
Beth says:
November 20, 2021
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just round the corner.
All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
Poem by Henry Scott-Holland
Edye says:
November 21, 2021
My dear Phyllis, how many times this past week I’ve said “I can’t believe this is real, this can’t be…” We are heartbroken that we won’t be able to listen to your hilarious stories, drink morning coffee, watch the sunrise, have a glass of wine, and just be with you. You brought so much joy to everyone. I wish I had known you much longer, but I’m sure it still wouldn’t have been long enough. I will cherish the memories of the long afternoons in one of our backyards, laughing until our stomachs hurt, and the wonderful parties you and Jim would host every year “in the hood”. I’m so glad that I was able to visit you in AZ and see how happy you were living there. You rest easy now and know that you are terribly missed.
Karen Sills says:
November 21, 2021
Aloha newest Angel Phyllis,
Today I will plant bulbs to be a bright spot in the spring, reminding me of what a bright spot you’ve been in my life for nearly 40 years.
You will continue to be thought of often and always with a smile, sometimes with a giggle and a few tears.
My deepest sympathies go out to Jim and Auggie.
❤️❤️❤️
Patricia Darby says:
November 24, 2021
Today I bought sunflowers; they remind me of you. I can still see that yellow burst of curls framing that cherub like face. The flowers won’t last but my memories of your joyfulness will forever be imprinted on my heart. You were snatched out of my life as fast as you entered it. I wish I could have told you one last time what happiness your new friendship brought to me. Our connection was uncanny but incredibly quick. We exchanged confidences like we’d known each other for years. Those trusting conversations were never finished, though. They were “to be continued” when we had more time. There are stories left untold and words of affection not uttered. I hope you know how grateful I am for your short passage through my life. Those sunflowers are for tomorrow, Thanksgiving, and in memory of you.