My Name is...

Cassi M. Tejeda

Cassi was my beloved daughter, taken from this world far to early at the young age of 22yrs old. I remember having her when I was only 18yrs old. The day we brought her home from the hospital and not knowing what I was supposed to do or how to care for her. More than 2 decades later she grew up to be an amazing human being. She was so caring, passionate, and intelligent. She was friends with everybody and never left anyone out. She was just months away from her bachelor's degree at Chico State University. One dark evening, an intoxicated low life on what became his third DUI offense was traveling 80mphs on a 15mph street running a signal and taking her from my life and this world. I fell to the ground when I took that call and I'll never truly recover. Cassi was only 3wks away from.being joined in this world by her sister to be at the time Skylette. She was excited to become a big sister and the last text we shared was me telling her the name we picked for her sister and her expressing how excited she was to meet her. Life is short and we always think tomorrow is coming when the truth is it might not. If I could do one thing in this world it would be to trade places and spare my daughter her tragic fate. I hope she knows how much she is missed and how I love her so. She will live in my heart and surrounded by love for eternity, in a place she will only know peace.

— Jerrod
— Jerrod Tejeda
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My Name is...

Cassi M. Tejeda

— Jerrod
— Jerrod Tejeda