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Rosemary Camy


Rosemary Camy

Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma

Rosemary Camy passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 27, surrounded by family. She was 95.

Rosemary was born in Santa Ana, California on Aug. 19, 1929, to Roland and Marie Weir. The family moved to Anaheim where Rosemary attended elementary and middle schools and graduated from Anaheim Union High School in 1947. She attended Fullerton and Santa Ana Community colleges, where she received her associate's degree.

She had a lifelong love of the water and was an avid swimmer and a member of the junior lifesaving team in high school. She was also an aspiring opera singer and lent her soprano voice to high school choir and as an adult, to various choirs and choruses. She also performed in many community theater productions over the years.

Rosemary was quite an accomplished piano player and would often entertain her children and other family members with playing and singing.

She enjoyed recounting events from her childhood to her extended family, which included surviving the great flood of 1938 when the Santa Ana dam overflowed and flooded a large swath of central Orange County, including Anaheim. She would tell of hearing the flood waters seeping in under the kitchen door and how the family had to survive in the attic for several days, eating dried oats with condensed milk until they were rescued.

Rosemary retired in 1994 from Kaiser Permanente after a 25-year tenure. She moved to Fallbrook where she bought a home. She became the consummate volunteer, giving her time to the Angel Shop, the Bottom Shelf Book Store, the Carlsbad Flower Fields and Fallbrook Hospital, where she served as a Pink Lady until the hospital's closing. She also enjoyed many years with membership in the Zoological Society in San Diego.

Rosemary moved to assisted living in December 2022 and lived within this community until she passed.

She was pre-deceased by her sister, Helen Harvey. She is survived by her sister Linda Mauzey (Larry), daughters Cheryl Kelly (Bob), Terry Clark (Tom) and son

James.

She is also survived by five grandchildren, Eric Liss; Laura Irvine; Steven Clark (Barbara); Ashley Clark and Mary Clark Deuling (Dylan); five great-grandchildren, Vaughn Liss, Tommy Irvine, Dylan Clark, Annie Irvine and River Clark, with another great-grandson coming in July.

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