Katy’s Story

Site created on November 23, 2021



**NOTE**: please scroll down for information about Katy's June 8 celebration of life event  at the Tower Hill Botanical Gardens (https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/katyskick-assteam/journal/view/id/65996f4ba6677c2029bbb09a)

Katy Shander, beloved mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend, died on October 20, 2023, after a three+ year battle with cancer. We are all heartbroken.


This site will stay up indefinitely as an archive, and as a place to keep up with any news about her in the future. There is also her permanent memorial site:

https://katyshander.com

Katy's original text here read:
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Welcome to Katy's Kick-Ass CaringBridge website. This is where you can get the lowdown on our fantabulous cancer journey.  We appreciate your support, and thank you for visiting!

Newest Update

Journal entry by Steve Linberg

Please forgive this blatantly self-serving post, but today was, or would have been, our 2nd anniversary. We only got to have one anniversary together, and we never got to go back to the Arboretum ourselves.

Two years ago, many of you were there on the best day of my life, when my most cherished dream came true and Katy let me put my ring on her beautiful finger, and put hers on mine, where it remains.

Tonight I went back to the spot, I brought her ashes, sat on the grass, watched the video and yada yada, you know the rest. It was a spectacularly beautiful evening, warm and clear with flowers bursting out everywhere; she would have been in heaven. 

(In a meaningless coincidence, our 2nd anniversary today also happens to be day 200 without her for all of us.)

June 8 is rapidly approaching... if you have not RSVP'd for Katy's celebration of life ceremony at Tower Hill in Boylston, please email slinberg@gmail.com right now and let me know you're coming and how many. We're already well over 50, so we really need a head count. Please come with a story and a photo if you have one.

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