- Date Of Birth: May 3, 1982
- Date Of Death: April 6, 2016
- State: Florida
Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Sabroski, 33, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at home in Crestview, Florida. Liz was born May 3, 1982 at Castle Air Force Base Hospital in Merced, California to proud parents, Daniel Joseph Sabroski and Rebecca Ann Sabroski.
Liz was special. She was sweet and kind and genuine. She was loved by everyone and she loved them, too. She had a special love and fondness for her grandparents and for her little nieces and nephews as well as for the cousins she grew up with in California. Liz was so young at only 33, but with her developmental disabilities and autism she was really just a child somewhere between 8 and 14 years old mostly, though sometimes, especially as the years passed, she surprised us and was right on target telling me she hated getting a gray hair and asked could I help her “color” it and she really did not think it was fair that she was not permitted to vote.
Liz did not have any children. It took her a long time to come to accept that she would never have the life that her siblings and others have, like having a spouse and children of her own or her own car to drive or her own grown up life apart from living with mom and dad, the things that the rest of us take for granted every single day. She did love to drive her Mule (a little golf cart-like vehicle) and she drove it very well, too, until increasing seizures prevented her from doing that anymore. She hated that. She hated the seizures because she tried so hard to live a normal life and they were always there to ruin a shopping trip or a plan to go out to Olive Garden, or the Chinese Buffet, which she loved to do.
Liz loved her mom. She absolutely adored her dad. They had a special bond, told silly jokes and they would watch favorite shows together because it meant so much to Liz and her dad loved to hear her laugh. She loved going for walks with her dad to Duck Pond. He loved it, too. She loved her brothers. And, like her mom’s place in the pecking order of life, she loved her sisters, too. She loved her sisters but she looked up to her brothers like she looked up to her dad.
Liz loved books, especially Harlequin romance novels and dog books and Dog Fancy magazines. She loved buying videos and CD’s. She loved buying makeup and could always choose the best colors in lipstick. She loved iced caramel macchiatos, the lemon cake at Starbucks, stuffed crust pizza and breadsticks, frappuccinos, wolves, holding puppies at PetSmart, feeding the donkeys who lived down the road, book stores, scary movies, Disney movies, the Simpsons and Garfield and Charlie Brown, and watching old Andy Griffith and Mr. Ed shows with her dad.
Liz’s family was her dogs. They were her babies. She loved animals of all kinds, but she had a special place in her heart for rescue dogs, and cats, for which she had many… too many to count over the years. She petted dogs every place she went.
Liz is preceded in death by her grandparents, William Earl Pennewell & Barbara Ellen Pennewell (Clark); her aunts, Nancy Engelsgjerd of Minnesota and Cynthia Boales of California; and cousin, Christopher Azlin.
Liz is survived by: her parents, Daniel & Rebecca Sabroski of Crestview, Florida, her grandparents, Robert & Mary Lou Sabroski of Duluth, Minnesota; her sisters, Katherine Brynelsen & her husband Shane and their daughter Jasmine of Spokane, Washington; and, Samantha Lusher & her husband Clayton and their children, Riley and Cameron of Fairview Heights, Illinois; her brothers, Mark Sabroski & his wife Shannon and their children, Ryan, Jackson, and Ella of Eagle River, Alaska, and, Michael Sabroski of Milton, Florida; and, her aunts and uncles (and their children/grandchildren), Nick & Jean Revier, Sarah & Frank Selhorst, Mary Sabroski, Robert Sabroski, Jim & Sue Smart, Barb & Greg Gecas, Alan & Sue Sabroski, Mary Azlin, and Ruby & Bob Sanders, as well as I want to mention here the cousins she knew best growing up: Emily Azlin, Fred Hall, Candace Steiner and Teddy Boales.
