User talk:CassLynn04

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Also, I wanted to ask you about a page you recently created for Erica Fausel. I'm not sure this page is really suitable for an encyclopedia. Though I'm sure Erica was a wonderful person during her short life, I don't think she is notable enough to merit an encyclopedia entry. Looking again, I see someone has tagged it for speedy deletion. I've pasted the text below in case you wanted to keep it for something else. In any case, I'm sorry for your loss if you were friend or family. --Kchase02 (T) 20:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello CassLynn04, I admit that I was the one to tag the Erica Fausel page for Speedy Deletion. Although every life is special, encyclopedias rarely contain obits. A more appropriate place to preserve the obit would be in the archives of your local library or back issues of your local newspaper. Please understand my position as an "editor." Yours, JGorton 20:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Text of Erica Fausel entry
Erica Dawn Fausel (August 1997-November 2004) was diagnosed with cancer at age four. She died Thanksgiving Day 2004.

Erica Dawn Fausel, who served as junior grand marshal of the 2003 Santa Maria Elks Rodeo Parade, lost her three-year battle against kidney cancer.

Erica, 7, of Santa Maria died Thanksgiving Day.

Four days before her fourth birthday in 2001, she was diagnosed with Wilms Tumor, a childhood cancer of the kidney. Chemotherapy and radiation brought the girl more than a year of remission.

"She was just an amazing little girl," said her mom, Lisa Fausel. "She had so much spirit."

Erica attended Happy Hollow Preschool and later kindergarten and first grade at Alice Shaw School. Her good health allowed her to ride in the Santa Maria Elks Rodeo Parade as junior grand marshal in 2003, and she enjoyed wrestling with her best friend and cousin, Slade Hooper.

"She was very active, always busy," Fausel said. "She loved to take care of everybody else."

She handled the treatments well, with one doctor telling the Fausels that "if her body was as strong as her spirit, she would have licked it every day.

"She made the most out of everything she did," Fausel said.

As the young girl underwent treatments, the community held fund-raisers to help the family handle costs not covered by insurance.

Survivors include her parents, Eric and Lisa; brother Jimmy; great-grandmother Mary Jackson; and grandparents Jim and Larri Lee Hooper and Sandra LaJeune.

A service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrews United Methodist Church, 3945 S. Bradley Road, Orcutt.

Memorial donations may be made in Erica Fausel's name to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital-Pediatric Oncology, P.O. Box 689, Santa Barbara 93102.

Cremation arrangements are being handled by McDermott-Crockett Mortuary in Santa Barbara.