Our hearts our so saddened this morning. Today a little after 5am one of the brightest, most beautiful stars in the universe went out. My cousin Elizabeth, our "Dizzy Lizzy" and "Cybus", lost her 18 month battle with aggressive non-hodgkins lymphoma. Elizabeth was everything that you always hope you will grow up to be, everything that you hope your daughter, granddaughter, or niece will be. Fiercely independent, loyal, beautiful, vibrant, funny, cool, confident, always the most stylish woman in the room and she always had the most gorgeous, flowing rich chestnut hair. And she fought like a champion all the way to the end.
I believe in my heart that her body gave up long before her heart ever would have. I think she held on as long as she did for the ones she loved. My heart is in pieces for my Aunt Helen, Uncle Jay, her brothers Matt and Carlton, and her 2 year old niece Rosalyn. Rozie will never grow to know first-hand what an awesome aunt Elizabeth was and would have been. My Aunt Helen and Matt are missing their best friend now.
At 33 Elizabeth had accomplished some things that many of us only dream of. She spent time in Italy as an exchange student, she traveled to Scotland and California, just to name a few. And several years ago she decided she wanted to move to New York and had been there until she came home a little earlier this year to try some different treatments at MUSC. I guess you could say that in a lot of ways she was "living the dream". And she fit in so perfectly in Manhattan!
There are so many wonderful times that we all shared. One of my greatest memories of time spent with her was when Mama, Aunt Helen and I went to stay with her in New York for a week in October 2007. Or April 2008 when we all went to Savannah for my sister's wedding, Elizabeth and I rode down together and had the best time! Just the two of us laughing, talking, reminiscing. She was 1/7 of our "Girl's Day Posse" and 1/4 of "The Wedding Belles". Every time she came home to visit from New York several of us would get together and do lunch. And when my sister Amanda got married, her, my sister's best friend Koasta, my sister Lyndsey, and I were her attendants. We had so much fun that Friday and Saturday preparing for and celebrating the wedding! If you made friends with Elizabeth, you knew you had a friend. If you knew her you were blessed to be able to say so. And she has the most awesome network of friends I have ever encountered.
There will be many things missed about her, but I think in my mind, above all, I am going to miss her beautiful smile and her one-of-a-kind infectious laughter.
I believe in my heart that her body gave up long before her heart ever would have. I think she held on as long as she did for the ones she loved. My heart is in pieces for my Aunt Helen, Uncle Jay, her brothers Matt and Carlton, and her 2 year old niece Rosalyn. Rozie will never grow to know first-hand what an awesome aunt Elizabeth was and would have been. My Aunt Helen and Matt are missing their best friend now.
At 33 Elizabeth had accomplished some things that many of us only dream of. She spent time in Italy as an exchange student, she traveled to Scotland and California, just to name a few. And several years ago she decided she wanted to move to New York and had been there until she came home a little earlier this year to try some different treatments at MUSC. I guess you could say that in a lot of ways she was "living the dream". And she fit in so perfectly in Manhattan!
There are so many wonderful times that we all shared. One of my greatest memories of time spent with her was when Mama, Aunt Helen and I went to stay with her in New York for a week in October 2007. Or April 2008 when we all went to Savannah for my sister's wedding, Elizabeth and I rode down together and had the best time! Just the two of us laughing, talking, reminiscing. She was 1/7 of our "Girl's Day Posse" and 1/4 of "The Wedding Belles". Every time she came home to visit from New York several of us would get together and do lunch. And when my sister Amanda got married, her, my sister's best friend Koasta, my sister Lyndsey, and I were her attendants. We had so much fun that Friday and Saturday preparing for and celebrating the wedding! If you made friends with Elizabeth, you knew you had a friend. If you knew her you were blessed to be able to say so. And she has the most awesome network of friends I have ever encountered.
There will be many things missed about her, but I think in my mind, above all, I am going to miss her beautiful smile and her one-of-a-kind infectious laughter.
Our hearts our so saddened this morning. Today a little after 5am one of the brightest, most beautiful stars in the universe went out. My cousin Elizabeth, our "Dizzy Lizzy" and "Cybus", lost her 18 month battle with aggressive non-hodgkins lymphoma. Elizabeth was everything that you always hope you will grow up to be, everything that you hope your daughter, granddaughter, or niece will be. Fiercely independent, loyal, beautiful, vibrant, funny, cool, confident, always the most stylish woman in the room and she always had the most gorgeous, flowing rich chestnut hair. And she fought like a champion all the way to the end.
I believe in my heart that her body gave up long before her heart ever would have. I think she held on as long as she did for the ones she loved. My heart is in pieces for my Aunt Helen, Uncle Jay, her brothers Matt and Carlton, and her 2 year old niece Rosalyn. Rozie will never grow to know first-hand what an awesome aunt Elizabeth was and would have been. My Aunt Helen and Matt are missing their best friend now.
At 33 Elizabeth had accomplished some things that many of us only dream of. She spent time in Italy as an exchange student, she traveled to Scotland and California, just to name a few. And several years ago she decided she wanted to move to New York and had been there until she came home a little earlier this year to try some different treatments at MUSC. I guess you could say that in a lot of ways she was "living the dream". And she fit in so perfectly in Manhattan!
There are so many wonderful times that we all shared. One of my greatest memories of time spent with her was when Mama, Aunt Helen and I went to stay with her in New York for a week in October 2007. Or April 2008 when we all went to Savannah for my sister's wedding, Elizabeth and I rode down together and had the best time! Just the two of us laughing, talking, reminiscing. She was 1/7 of our "Girl's Day Posse" and 1/4 of "The Wedding Belles". Every time she came home to visit from New York several of us would get together and do lunch. And when my sister Amanda got married, her, my sister's best friend Koasta, my sister Lyndsey, and I were her attendants. We had so much fun that Friday and Saturday preparing for and celebrating the wedding! If you made friends with Elizabeth, you knew you had a friend. If you knew her you were blessed to be able to say so. And she has the most awesome network of friends I have ever encountered.
There will be many things missed about her, but I think in my mind, above all, I am going to miss her beautiful smile and her one-of-a-kind infectious laughter.
I believe in my heart that her body gave up long before her heart ever would have. I think she held on as long as she did for the ones she loved. My heart is in pieces for my Aunt Helen, Uncle Jay, her brothers Matt and Carlton, and her 2 year old niece Rosalyn. Rozie will never grow to know first-hand what an awesome aunt Elizabeth was and would have been. My Aunt Helen and Matt are missing their best friend now.
At 33 Elizabeth had accomplished some things that many of us only dream of. She spent time in Italy as an exchange student, she traveled to Scotland and California, just to name a few. And several years ago she decided she wanted to move to New York and had been there until she came home a little earlier this year to try some different treatments at MUSC. I guess you could say that in a lot of ways she was "living the dream". And she fit in so perfectly in Manhattan!
There are so many wonderful times that we all shared. One of my greatest memories of time spent with her was when Mama, Aunt Helen and I went to stay with her in New York for a week in October 2007. Or April 2008 when we all went to Savannah for my sister's wedding, Elizabeth and I rode down together and had the best time! Just the two of us laughing, talking, reminiscing. She was 1/7 of our "Girl's Day Posse" and 1/4 of "The Wedding Belles". Every time she came home to visit from New York several of us would get together and do lunch. And when my sister Amanda got married, her, my sister's best friend Koasta, my sister Lyndsey, and I were her attendants. We had so much fun that Friday and Saturday preparing for and celebrating the wedding! If you made friends with Elizabeth, you knew you had a friend. If you knew her you were blessed to be able to say so. And she has the most awesome network of friends I have ever encountered.
There will be many things missed about her, but I think in my mind, above all, I am going to miss her beautiful smile and her one-of-a-kind infectious laughter.
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SHE FILLED OUR LIVES WITH LOVE AND LAUGHTER
