Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 3629 Location: San Diego
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: Just another little light in a sea of candles ...
... each one representing a loved one passed, a talent lost, a future denied, a song repressed or a book unwritten.
With all the strife in the world and here in America at the moment it's so easy to get caught up in those tides and be swept along only to forget ... everything, until it's too late.
I'd be surprised if many of you even know who this is suffice it to say that it was a terrible loss to all of us even those of us that didn't know her.
Here's one of those candles snuffed out forever.
In 1993, Cassidy had a malignant mole removed from her back. Three years later, during a promotional event for the Live at Blues Alley album in July 1996, Cassidy noticed an ache in her hips, which she attributed to stiffness from painting murals while perched atop a stepladder.[11] The pain persisted and a few weeks later, X-rays revealed that the melanoma had spread to her lungs and bones. The doctors gave her three to five months to live. Cassidy opted for aggressive treatment, but her health deteriorated rapidly.[3] In her final public performance in September 1996, at the Bayou, she closed the set with "What a Wonderful World" in front of an audience of friends, fans and family.[18] She was subsequently admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital.[11]
Cassidy died at her family home in Bowie, November 2, 1996, at the age of 33. She was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Washington Area Music Association.[19] According to her wishes, Cassidy’s body was cremated. Her ashes were scattered on the shores of St. Mary's River Watershed Park, a nature reserve near California, Maryland.[3]
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