Prose Lysandra Cassells' Obituary
Prose Lysandra Cassells, 46, passed away suddenly on February 14th of this year; the Valentine's Day that broke so many hearts.
Prose was born in Newport News, VA on December 13, 1978, the first child of Mark Gordon Cassells and Lilian Hunter Cassells. Prose graduated early from Gov. Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick MD, as a National Merit Scholar. From there she pursued education in St Mary's College and graduated in 2004 from St. John's College, Annapolis. Later in life she went back to school and graduated with a bachelors from Shepherd University to help her pursue a career in teaching.
Prose valued the exploration of wonder through knowledge and critical thinking. She taught a variety of high school courses at the Nora School and most recently at Glen Burnie High School. The number of lives she enriched through her love of learning in and out of the classroom is immeasurable and the lives that are better for having known her, uncountable.
Music and dancing were as natural to her as breathing, and she was a voracious reader, sometime poet, artist, and an expert with flavors in her cooking and baking. She adored her family, and was fiercely devoted to her son.
Prose's strength and kindness set her apart. She walked this world with unmatched courage and grace, fortitude and fierce joy. Her spirit lives on, blazing bright, in every soul she touched, in every life she influenced and changed.
Prose is carried on by her son, Pyrrian Drakus Cassells, parents Mark Gordon and Lilian Hunter Cassells, and younger siblings Aurora Jean Bristor and Mark James Cassells. She is also survived by a strong and colorful chosen family.
The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, the most valuable donation would be one made to a Red Cross blood drive. Over the past few years Prose's life was repeatedly saved by strangers as she received transfusions. Please donate, if you are able.
A memorial service and celebration of life will be held from 2-4p on March 1, 2025, at McCathran Hall in Washington Grove, MD, where many of her family have also been celebrated.
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?
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And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
- Kahlil Gibran
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