Thursday, 28 March 2024

Ashley Penrose

Ashley Penrose. Courtesy photo.

Ashley Lynn (Sellards) Penrose
March 23, 1971 - May 26, 2021

As with her life, Ashley Lynn (Sellards) Penrose, could not wait to get her journey started, so much so that she was born to proud and relieved parents, Henry Grady Sellards Jr., and Cheryle Eyerly (Sellards) Yost, March 23, 1971 (at six and a half months) in Detroit, Michigan, giving everyone (especially her mother) a bit of a fright.

After spending the first year of her life in Michigan, her family moved west to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she spent her early formative years enjoying the beauty of the Rocky Mountains.

At the age of 8, her family moved west to Kelseyville, California, where she discovered that growing up beside a lake could be just as majestic as the mountains. Here, she was blessed with many good friends and a family that loved her dearly.

The years passed as they do, until her graduation day from Kelseyville High school came on a hot June day in 1989.

Ashley’s thirst for knowledge would not stop there, so she sought out higher education and ultimately found her way back to Colorado where she achieved a master’s degree in speech-language pathology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Many years passed, and Ashley thrived as a speech-language pathologist. She worked with older adults in the beginning, but as with her spirit she gravitated toward kids and found that her true speech passion was helping and working with children.

This ultimately led her to the schools and classrooms, which allowed her to work with and touch the lives of children on a daily basis. She helped many kids overcome various levels of speech and early development physical communication issues, and helped them to find their voices.

On Valentine’s Day of 2015 Ashley married the man she loved, Robert Corey Penrose in a beautiful ceremony above the fountains at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.

Ashley and Corey wasted no time getting their life together started, and soon thereafter had purchased a beautiful home on a hill with a view of the water in Vallejo, California.

They were very happy together and, in addition to spending time with family on both sides, which was very important to them both, they found the things that made them happy including traveling, enjoying great food, cooking, entertaining and so much more.

Family was more important to Ashley than anything, and she loved embracing and adding to the traditions of Corey’s family as well as her own.

Ashley was a unique spirit. She was a fiercely loyal wife, daughter, sister, auntie and friend. She had a heart of gold and would go to the ends of the earth and back again to help someone in need, or to just put a smile on their faces. She often put everyone else’s wants and needs above her own.

For those who called Ashley “friend,” never a truer friend could they have. She not only cared deeply about each of her many friends, but she also literally cataloged her engagements and logged the memories that were so precious to her.

Outside of work, her greatest passions were her husband, her family, her dog Pepper and being the best “Aunticorn” (a mythical creature related to the unicorn capable of incredible love, patience and fun for her nieces and nephews).

For us, her family, we can only say she was the keeper of our hearts. Ashley wanted every interaction to be a special one and found ways to add to even unambiguous events.

For special ones including holidays and birthdays she always made sure we all remembered the traditions and little details (birthday crowns, sashes and running around the table were a must) which so many take for granted and was always finding the magic, making the day truly ours.

She loved to read and was involved in many book clubs as well as being a beautiful writer. She loved a good party, good food, music to boogie to and had a laugh and smile to fill the room.

Ashley is proceeded in death by her father, Henry Grady Sellards Jr.

Ashley is survived by her loving husband, Corey Penrose; mother, Cheryle, and stepfather, Wayne Yost of Kelseyville; brother, Grady (Reggie) Sellards of Glendale, California; sister, Heather (Josh) Adams of Windsor, California; stepbrother, Bryce (Amy) Yost of Lemoore, California; stepsister, Jinny Spring (Rick) of Roseville, California; mother-in-law, Jan Penrose of Woodland, California; brother-in-law, Nicholas Penrose and Esther Jacobo of Woodland; sister-in-law, Lori Penrose and Gregory Calderon of Woodland; and beloved nephews and nieces, Benjamin, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Emily, Madelynn, Arik, Carina, Joey and Samantha; as well as many aunts, uncles and cousins.

ASHLEY, YOU WILL BE MISSED.

A celebration of life for Ashley is tentatively planned for Labor Day weekend. More information will follow.

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