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Just 'cause you return to your birthplace, to the home you grew up in, or to visit some old friends, don't mean you don't care, it means you cherish your past, and it shows what you keep close to your heart. written on: March 7, 2001Cassie Freet


This memorial website was created to remember our dearest CASSIE EILEEN FREET who was born in Iowa WATERLOO on January 19, 1985 and passed away on April 22, 2006 at the age of 21. You will live forever in our memories and hearts.

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MOM
 
ONE TIME, JOHN AND I PLAYED A JOKE ON CASSIE. JOHN, IF YOU EVER READ THIS, LET ME KNOW. REMEMBER, IT'S FUNNY. LOL.
JOHN, MY SON, IS A TRUCK DRIVER. ONE DAY, HE WAS COMING HOME OFF THE ROAD AND NEEDED A PLACE TO PARK HIS SEMI. I TOLD HIM THAT HE COULD PART IT HERE AT MY HOUSE. THEN I GOT AN IDEA. CASSIE WAS AT WORK, AND SHE DIDN'T KNOW THAT JOHN WAS COMING HOME. SO JOHN AND I GOT A WILD HAIR, AND STARTED SCHEMING. LOL. THIS IS TOO FUNNY!!!!!!! I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING ABOUT IT! ANYWAY, I TOLD JOHN THAT WHEN HE GOT HERE, TO LET ME KNOW AND I WOULD COME OUTSIDE AND HELP DIRECT HIM INTO MY DRIVEWAY SO HE DOESN'T HIT MY HOUSE. HE SAID HE WOULD PARK IN THE DRIVEWAY AND TRY TO KEEP THE SEMI 'HID' FROM VIEW. I'VE GOT A VERY BIG HOUSE, AND HIDING A SEMI IS EASY! LOL. CASSIE CALLED HOME AND ASKED IF JOHN HAD GOTTEN HOME AND I TOLD HER NO, (EVEN THOUGH HE WAS SITTING RIGHT HERE WITH ME) AND SHE WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TIME HE WOULD BE HOME SO SHE COULD TALK TO HIM AFTER SHE GOT OFF OF WORK. SHE WAS WORKING AT OMEGA CABINETS AT THE TIME AND SHE WORKED THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT. ANYWAY, SHE TOLD ME WHAT TIME SHE WOULD BE HOME AND I SAID OK. JOHN AND I JUST SAT HERE AND CRACKED UP. HE WASN'T LEAVING UNTIL HE SAW HER. MIND YOU, THE SEMI IS VERY BIG, AND HIDDEN NEXT TO MY HOUSE, WHICH IS VERY BIG ALSO, AND YOU DON'T SEE THE SEMI UNTIL YOU PULL INTO THE DRIVEWAY!!! WELL, CASSIE CALLED AND SAID SHE WAS ON HER WAY. SHE TOLD US LATER THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: SHE WAS DRIVING HOME, PULLED ONTO THE STREET WHERE WE LIVE, PULLED INTO THE DRIVEWAY AND CAME FACE TO FACE WITH A SEMI'S GRILL!!!!!! WE DIDN'T HEAR HER SCREAM, BUT SHE CAME INTO THE HOUSE JUST A CUSSIN UP A STORM!!!!!! JOHN AND I SAT HERE AND LAUGHED OUR BUTTS OFF!! CASSIE SAID THAT SHE PULLED IN THE DRIVEWAY, DIDN'T SEE THE SEMI, AND LOOKED UP AND SLAMMED ON HER BRAKES! THEN SHE LET OUT A SCREAM. WE WERE LAUGHING SO HARD, WE STARTED CRYING!!!!!! SHE SLAPPED JOHN ON THE SHOULDER AND THEN ME. SHE WANTED TO KNOW HOW WE COULD HIDE A SEMI THAT HUGE AND NO ONE COULD SEE IT? I TOLD HER IT WAS EASY, JUST PARK NEXT TO A BIG 2 STORY HOUSE! WE ALL SAT HERE AND JUST HAD A GREAT LAUGH! CASSIE SWORE TO GET US BACK FOR THAT, BUT SHE NEVER DID. BUT SHE TOLD US THAT SHE WOULD LOOK VERY CAREFULLY NEXT TIME SHE PULLED INTO OUR DRIVEWAY. THAT WAY SHE DOESN'T THINK THAT A SEMI IS GOING TO RUN HER OVER. LOL.
WE LOVED PLAYING TRICKS ON YOU CASSIE. YOU WERE SO KIND HEARTED AND WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING TO SHAKE THINGS UP. WE'RE NOT SORRY THAT WE DID THIS JOKE ON YOU, IT IS ONE WE WILL NEVER FORGET. REMEMBER HONEY, WE LOVE YOU, NO MATTER WHAT JOKE WE PLAYED ON YOU. LOL.
LOVE MOM & JOHN
MOM
 

I PULLED OUT CASSIE'S BABYBOOK TODAY. READING THINGS AND REMEMBERING HER CHILDHOOD. SHE HAD LOTS OF FUN. SHE'S WAS AN OVER-ACHIEVER EVEN THEN. HERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT GOT PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSLETTERS FOR SCHOOL, THAT CASSIE SAID.

THE HOUSE:

IT IS PURPLE. MY FAMILY LIVES IN IT.

CAT:

THE CAT WAS IN THE HOUSE. MY CAT'S NAME IS SNEAKY. SNEAKY PLAYED WITH A TOY RAT. SHE PLAYED WITH A BALL. SHE PLAYED IN THE KITCHEN WITH A TOY.

I THOUGHT THESE WERE CUTE, SO I'M SHARING THEM WITH ALL OF YOU.

WE LOVE YOU CASSIE.

LOVE MOM AND GEORGE.

MOM & GEORGE
 

EASTER 2006: A MEMORY THAT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. REV. JIM ITES, ASKED IF I KNEW ANYONE WHO WOULD TAKE THE JUNGLE-GYM THAT THEY HAD AT HIS CHURCH. I SAID I WOULD TAKE IT. IT WOULD MAKE A GREAT EASTER GIFT FOR GEORGE! PROBLEM WAS, TRYING TO FIND PEOPLE TO HELP ME GET IT MOVED FROM THE CHURCH TO OUR HOUSE! BUT I FOUND THE HELP AND WE GOT STARTED. IT WAS A LONG DAY. VERY EXHAUSTING. I TOLD CASSIE ABOUT IT AND SHE THOUGHT THE SAME THING I DID, GEORGE IS GOING TO LOVE HAVING HIS OWN PRIVATE PARK IN HIS YARD!!!!! CASSIE AGREED TO KEEP GEORGE WITH HER UNTIL WE I CALLED HER TO LET HER KNOW THAT WE GOT IT AND HAD SET IT UP. IT WASN'T EASY. THE CLUTCH ON MY PICKUP BURNED UP, TEMPERS WERE HIGH, AND WE WERE RUNNING OUT OF TIME! I WANTED TO GET THIS JUNGLE GYM HOME AND SET UP BEFORE EASTER! IT TOOK US AWHILE TO GET IT HOME AND SET IT UP. BY 8PM THAT NIGHT, WE WERE EXHAUSTED! HOPING GEORGE WOULD LIKE IT AND PLAY ON IT THAT NIGHT, BUT HE DIDN'T GET TO, HE HAD TO WAIT THE FOLLOWING DAY, EASTER. I CALLED CASSIE AND TOLD HER THAT WE HAD GOTTEN IT SET UP AND THAT SHE COULD BRING GEORGE HOME. CASSIE WANTED TO HELP US WITH ALL THE WORK THAT WE DID, BUT GEORGE WANTED TO BE WITH HIS SISTER. WHEN SHE GOT HERE WITH GEORGE, I MET THEM AT HER PICKUP AND BROUGHT HIM IN THE BACKDOOR AND WALKED ALL THE WAY TO THE FRONT! I TOLD HIM TO CLOSE HIS EYES, AND HE SAID, ONLY IF SISSY CLOSED HER EYES ALSO. HEHE SO SHE DID. WHEN WE GOT OUTSIDE ON THE FRONT PORCH, I TOLD GEORGE AND CASSIE TO OPEN THEIR EYES AND BOTH OF THEM JUST LIT UP! YOU'D A THOUGHT IT WAS CHRISTMAS! IMMEDIATELY THEY WANTED TO PLAY ON THE JUNGLE GYM AND OFF THEY WENT. ONLY 15 MINUTES AND THEY HAD TO COME INSIDE. BUT ON EASTER SUNDAY, THEY WERE BOTH OUTSIDE PLAYING ON THE JUNGLE GYM. CASSIE, BEING 21 YEARS OLD, WAS ACTING LIKE SHE WAS 10 YRS. OLD AND HAVING A BALL WITH GEORGE PLAYING. THEY LAUGHED, GIGGLED, AND CHASED EACH OTHER ALL OVER THAT THING! CASSIE WHISPERED TO ME, "MOM, YOU DID GREAT GETTING THAT FOR GEORGE AND I AM SO PROUD OF YOU. YOU MADE GEORGE'S DAY! I LOVE YOU!" I HUGGED HER AND TOLD HER THANK YOU AND THAT I LOVED HER AND GEORGE VERY MUCH. WE STOOD THERE WATCHING GEORGE, A PROUD SISTER AND A PROUD MOM.

THIS EASTER IS HARD, WE MISS CASSIE. REMEMBERING THE HOLIDAY, WITHOUT CASSIE, IS EXTREMELY HARD. WE LOVE YOU MY DAUGHTER AND MY BEST FRIEND. LOVE FOREVER, MOMMY AND GEORGE.

MOM
 
THIS IS OUR GLAMOUR SHOTS PHOTO. IT WAS TAKEN IN JULY OF 2001. CASSIE AND I WERE AT THE MALL WHEN THIS GENTLEMEN APPROACHED US AND TOLD US ALL ABOUT THE GLAMOUR SHOTS. I TOLD THE GENTLEMAN NO, BECAUSE I HAD ALREADY DONE THE GLAMOUR THING TWICE ALREADY. CASSIE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID, "MOM, YOU MAY HAVE DONE THEM TWICE, BIT I HAVEN'T HAD THEM DONE. AND YOU HAVEN'T HAD THEM DONE WITH ME EITHER." HOW COULD I ARGUE WITH HER LOGIC. I STOOD THERE FOR A FEW MINUTES AND CASSIE JUST KEPT LOOKING AT ME AND BEGGING ME WITH HER EYES. WHEN I FINALLY SAID OK, SHE JUMPED UP AND HUGGED ME SO HARD I THOUGHT THE BABY WOULD POP OUT! CASSIE WAS REALLY PROUD OF HERSELF THAT SHE HAD TALKED MOM INTO DOING THIS WITH HER. WE HAD LOTS OF FUN. SHE LOVED HAVING HER HAIR AND MAKEUP DONE AND I TOLD THEM NOT TO MAKE ME LOOK SO DAMN PALE! WE HAD FUN PICKING OUT THE CLOTHES AND THE BACKGROUNDS, WE JUST MADE EVERYONE LAUGH. WHEN WE GOT DONE AND LEFT THE MALL, EVERYONE LOOKED AT US LIKE WE JUST WALKED OUT OF GLAMOUR MAGAZINE. WE GOT WHISTLES AND ASKED FOR DATES. WE JUST LAUGHED AND RAN FOR THE HILLS. WE WENT BACK LATER TO LOOK AT THE GLAMOUR SHOTS AND I ABOUT FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR. MY DAUGHTER, CASSIE, SO BEAUTIFUL-----I FELL TOTALLY HEAD OVER HEALS FOR HER!  MY HEART FILLED TO THE MAX WITH THE LOVE I FELT WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT THE PICS. WE HAD A HARD TIME PICKING OUT WHICH ONES WE WANTED TO GIVE AND WHAT WE WANTED TO SAVE. BUT WE WERE NEVER DISAPPOINTED. EACH PHOTO TURNED OUT GREAT. I WILL NEVER REGRET HAVING CASSIE TALK ME INTO DOING THE GLAMOUR SHOTS. THAT DAY WILL ALWAYS BE: MOM AND DAUGHTER DAY. THIS PHOTO IS FOR US CASSIE. I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL! YOU AND ME, TOGETHER, FOREVER, FOR ALL ETERNITY.
MOM
 
CASSIE LOVED BEING A SISTER TO ALL OF HER SIBILINGS. ESPECIALLY TO HER LITTLE BROTHER GEORGE. SHE SPOILED HIM ROTTEN! THE MINUTE SHE GOT HOME FROM SCHOOL, SHE WOULD PLAY WITH HIM. HE EVEN TOOK BATHS WITH HER. SHE WOULD CHASE HIM AROUND THE HOUSE, TEASE HIM, TICKLE HIM, AND HOLD HIM WHEN HE WAS TIRED. WHEN SHE WAS HOME, ALL GEORGE WANTED WAS HIS SISSY. SHE EVEN TAUGHT HIM HOW TO GET ON MOMMY'S NERVES. LOL. SHE WAS A LITTLE KID HERSELF WHEN SHE WOULD PLAY WITH HIM. SHE WAS 15 WHEN GEORGE WAS BORN. SHE FELL DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH HIM. SHE WATCH HIM LIKE A HAWK. WHEN SHE WOULD TAKE HIM TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH HER, SHE WOULD JUST BE GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR. SHE FELT LIKE A PROUD PARENT HERSELF. SHE WOULD BATHE HIM, CLOTHE HIM, AND SHE WANTED TO TAKE GEORGE WITH HER TOO BOTH OF HER PROMS, BUT SHE COULDN'T AND SHE KNEW IT. AND GEORGE WOULDN'T GO TO SLEEP WITHOUT HIS SISTER. CASSIE AND GEORGE WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER. AND TO THIS DAY, I KNOW SHE MISSES HIM AS MUCH AS HE MISSES HER.
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Joe My Deepest Sympapthy
 

Tanya,

I did not know Cassie personally.  But I've read what you her mom has to tell about her...and my heart was overwhelmed at the beautiful things you, have said about your Cassie.

I know she is missed terribly, by you and all who loves her.

Someday we will all be together again, but until then, rest assured that Cassie is looking down and watching over you and George.

My heart goes out to you my dear friend and with all the Love you so deserve.

May God Bless & Keep you and George in His care.

With Love & Prayers,

Joe