Mom passed away in the late morning of October 6th, 2014.  She was 88 years old.  Born Mary Elizabeth Bauer on January 29th, 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri, mom was the youngest child of Edna "Nee Nee" Bauer and Seymour Clarence Bauer.  She was raised in Kansas City along with her older sister and brother, Martha and John.

Toward the end of the Second World War, a childhood friend of mom's  brother came to visit the Bauer Family.   Joseph Michael ("Mike") Casey had just returned from combat duty in The Pacific.  Mike Casey was a corpsman (medic) with the Marines.  He participated in some of the first major combat action of the war, including operations at New Guinea, Guadalcanal, and Tarawa.  He was 18 years old.

It was during his visit with the Bauer family that Mike would take notice of John's "little sister," Mary, who was now a young woman.  A short time later, our mom and dad were married.  They eventually settled in Southern California.

During their years together, mom and dad would have six children.  They would experience the tragic loss of one child, Timothy Sean Casey, who passed away in 1971 at the age of 11.  Mom and Dad would live to see the rest of their children grow to adulthood.  They would eventually become grandparents to 12 grandchildren and 18+ great grandchildren.  Sadly, however, Mom would live to endure the loss of two grandchildren:  Shawna Maureen Riddell, daughter of her third child, Maureen, and Dylan Michael Casey, child of her first son Kevin and his wife Jan.

In December 1992, our dad, Joseph Michael Casey passed away.  He was 68 years old.  Mom and dad had been married 48 years.

They are both loved and greatly missed.