Amy Kristine Larson

April 27 1978 – August 24 2018

CELEBRATION OF LIFE

Saturday October 6th Elks lodge 4131 Pine Rd. NE Bremerton Wa 98310. From 2:00 to 5:00 pm.

Come join Amy’s family for her celebration of life, bring your stories of how she inspired you and share them with us. Be sure to wear your most favorite soft flannel shirt or Seattle Seahawks gear to honor her love for all things Pacific North West! If you have a picture you’d like to share at the event please email [email protected]

Amy and her sisters Sarah and Stacey grew up primarily in the Silverdale area playing in the woods, on the beaches and in the waters of our beautiful Puget Sound area.

Amy’s grandparents Mickie and Harold Tassin aka “Momma T and Papa T” nicknamed her Gabby because when she started talking it was so fast we couldn’t fully understand what she was saying, we found ourselves saying “what” a lot. As time went by she slowed down so that we didn’t have to say it quite as often.

She was a master at defusing quarrels, anybodies quarrel, and being in a big family that came in pretty handy. She was well known for this quality in her circles of friends as well. This proved to be a training ground for her future line of work.

Amy graduated from Central Kitsap High School in 1996 establishing a strong family of “homies” that has lasted till this day. She then lived in Texas for a short time before attending Olympic Collage in Bremerton graduating with Associates in Arts & Sciences in 2001. She then moved on to Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington graduating in 2004 with a Bachelors of Science in Recreation and Tourism.

Amy managed both the Oak Rail in Ellensburg and the Oak Rail II in Wenatchee before she moved to the San Francisco area in 2008. There she established an extended family while working and managing at the Chieftain Pub, Tres’ Agaves and finally an event sales representative for the Chalet Restaurant chain in the Bay area. Amy returned to the Pacific Northwest in 2013. She became certified as a State Farm Insurance representative and worked with the Haslewood Auto Group auto sales in Bremerton helping customers with vehicle insurance packages before working for Holland America Cruise Lines based out of Seattle. Amy received "Rookie of the Year” for the highest grossing sales in rookie history and gained a Premier Sales Consultant status. Amy never let her cancer get in front of her goals; she remained in a working status up until she passed.

Amy loved the outdoors whether snowboarding or hiking at Lake Tahoe, trudging through the Blue Agave fields in Mexico, or returning to her first love of the rainforests, mountains and waters of the Pacific Northwest. She especially loved hiking the Hoh River and clamming, collecting driftwood, shells and oyster gathering along the beaches of Hood Canal or Puget Sound.

Amy was especially fond of alchemy labs whether it was making pickles or teriyaki sauce or whipping up new essential oil creams, shampoos or cancer remedies. She made blends for chemo related nausea and a “zip zap” blend that really worked!

Amy was known to her nieces and nephews as Auntie Mimi, a nickname that came about because Amy said her name so fast that “Mimi” stuck. She especially enjoyed spending time with Ruby, Ava, Demitri, Francesca and Oliver going to the movies, talking about books and their interests, hopes and dreams.

Amy dedicated herself to her sobriety and developed a strong relationship with her higher power that afforded her the strength to face up to being diagnosed in 2014 with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer that had spread into her bones. She was a mind over matter girl; she developed a long list of personal goals and achieved every single one. She has written beautiful stories about her journey in hopes that she could inspire less fear of cancer and to face it with dignity and a fierce courage to fight.

Anytime Amy would approach you her face would light up when she saw you and she made you smile just by looking at her. She was so sharp, kind, and courteous that you become eased and would want to be her friend. Especially when you heard her laugh and she loved the super dorkie spiffs the most.

Amy reconnected with high school friend Jason Lusk from 22 years ago and the stars came into alignment for them and love bloomed as if they should have been together long before. They truly completed each other and then they bought a mini-schnauzer, Kona, and they realized that they were truly a family.

Amy passed away at home surrounded by family and music in a peaceful and beautiful environment. Farewell Amy, our love.

Amy is survived by her fiancé Jason Lusk and their dog Kona of Bremerton and Amy’s parents, Kris Larson of Brownsville, mother Lynda Tassin Cosner and her husband Dennis Cosner of Bremerton, sister Sarah Larson Dibert, and her husband Steve and daughters Ruby and Ava of Seabeck, sister Stacey Cosner Eklund and her husband Todd and children Demitrious, Francesca and Oliver and Amy’s grandparent’s Harold and Mickie Tassin of Bremerton and grandmother Margaret Cosner of Silverdale and many, many more beloved uncles, aunts, cousins and extended family and friends.

Amy’s Facebook post from October 2017

“Pink October is coming to an end fast. So maybe I should tell you a story. I'm the home girl with cancer that's me. Most forget because I still run around with my head cut off all over the place ping ponging. I mostly live a normal life with the kind of breast cancer that I have. It is stage 4 that has metastasized in my bones. So I haven’t had to have chemo or major surgery. The treatments that are available now days work well holding it off from growing and spreading. Then it finds a way around the treatment and we switch to a new one. This is a scary cycle. And I am on treatment #4. But I am lucky. Lucky because living in this time there have been enough discoveries that there has so far always been a new treatment that works for me. If you think about it....my life these last three years has been possible because of those who selflessly gave to research. And because of those before me that bravely participated in uncertain & scary trials. I will be relying on another discovery for the rest of my days. 20% chance of surviving 2 years is what they told me yet here I sit telling you my story three years later. So donate where you can or give in the name of a loved one. It will not be fir nothing as it is my everything and for millions of others. I am so thankful for this life and for all of those who have given so that I may keep living it. ~Thanks for listening, Donate”

Please donate to Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in the name of Amy K Larson STRONG, thank you.