Stephanie Joyce Casey

My loving wife Stephanie Casey passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, January 31, 2023.

Stephanie was born in Yuba City on November 1, 1956. She was raised in Olivehurst until she moved to Westhaven at the age of 13 with her parents, Raymond and Hazel Sarten. They later relocated to McKinleyville where she graduated from Mack High.

Stephanie worked early in life selling cars and financing at a couple of local car lots, which lead to a lifelong career in business and personal financing. She worked for a few different businesses until she landed her dream job with Coast Central Credit Union. Starting in collections, she worked her way up within the company to loan officer, doing personal, auto and home loans for many Humboldt County residents. After retiring with just shy of 20 years of service, she worked the last two years as a mortgage underwriter.

On June 26, 1993, Stephanie married longtime McKinleyville resident Craig Casey. They lived happily together in the new home they built in McKinleyville in 1995 until her death that sad night. During the years they made wonderful memories doing hobbies together, such as hunting and camping with family, bicycling, skiing, motorcycle touring; each riding their own 1800cc Honda Goldwing tour bikes. She was independent and wanted to ride her own bike and she did so while pulling a cargo trailer, taking trips as far away as Texas, Canada and Utah to see parks and many other sites. If a new hobby was started, Stephanie and Craig did it together. They were a team.

Being a hunter, Stephanie was lucky to draw a Humboldt County Bull Elk tag in 2018 and had a successful season, scoring a large 5X6 bull that netted 300 pounds of meat. Proud of her success, she had it mounted and enjoyed showing the bull to others and sharing the story of how it was taken.

Stephanie was a strong and proud supporter of our Second Amendment. This showed as she was an Endowment Life member of the NRA, life member of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, North Coast Pistol League, Long Prairie Gun and Archery Club, United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA), Single Action Shooting Association (SASS).

She competed in SASS – Cowboy Action Competitions for over 15 years, winning many first-place trophies in her division using two single action revolvers, lever action rifles, and pump or side by side shotguns every time she stepped to the firing line. It’s a hoot, she said, most fun thing ever. Stephanie looked forward to each shoot. Every cowboy and cowgirl have an alias. Stephanie picked REDWOOD ROSE to be hers; a befitting name coming from Humboldt and having rosy, red cheeks. She will be laid to rest in a casket adorned with roses.

USPSA was another favorite shooting sport for Stephanie, which became tougher as she aged. A physical sport, Stephanie tried hard and pushed herself at the competitions and to everyone’s surprise still earned first place trophies shooting a 9mm carbine in a division called Pistol Caliber Carbine.

Stephanie was preceded in death by her mother Hazel. She is survived by her father Raymond (McKinleyville), and brother Randall Price (Eureka). Services will be held at Paul’s Chapel 1070 H St. Arcata on Friday, February 10, at 1 p.m.

Donations should be made to the charity of choice in Stephanie’s name. Love to all.

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