Corinne Heyman

Corinne Perri Heyman, 26, lost her ten year struggle with depression and died peacefully in her home in Fort Collins Colorado on July 21st, 2011. She was born in Denver on November 22nd, 1984. Corinne was a brilliant, beautiful sprite. She read constantly and wrote beautifully and cogently. She would often speak out on social issues and was a frequent contributor to the Opinion page of the Coloradoan. She was concerned about others and loved pets of many varieties, not just dogs and cats but also hedgehogs, ferrets, mice, rats, and turtles. She adored her niece, Tasia, and would teach her about whales, social justice and also fairies, princesses, Amazon warriors and pirates. She graduated Fort Collins' Centennial high school in 2003 and Evergreen State College, Olympia WA, in 2010. Most recently she had been working at PetCo. She is survived by so many who will love her forever including her parents, Dick and Andrea Heyman, her brother Joel Heyman, her sister Hilary Quarrells, her niece Tasia Brown, her grandmother Flora Smith, her uncle Steve and Aunt Cathy, her aunt Joyce, and many cousins, birth relatives, friends, and former teachers and mentors. She is buried in Roselawn Cemetery. A Corinne Heyman Memorial fund has been set up at Public Service Credit union as a scholarship fund for her niece Tasia.