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Written by Tony Simmons
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 We can't let her go quietly.
Marisa Joy Williams was the light and laughter and love in so many of
our lives that her absence left us devastated and empty in a personal
darkness. She was taken in a single car accident on a rain-slicked
interstate in the wee hours of Feb. 23, 2008. She was 18 years old.
In her memory, we're trying to make art and create smiles and
perpetuate her spirit in the form of a scholarship to deserving
technical theatre students at Gulf Coast Community College. "Project
Joy Boots," created by her friends Katie and Jazma, took one of
Marisa's idiosyncracies and turned it into a fundraising program. You
can learn more about it on the Joy Boots "Facebook" group. The boots
have been displayed and sold at the Spring Festival of the Arts, along
the walls at Strange Brew Coffee Cafe, during performances of
Shakespeare in the Park, and soon in the student gallery at GCCC.Panama
City Centennial artist Barbara Mulligan is among those who contributed
boots to the cause.
We miss Marisa desperately. And we want you to have some inkling of
what you missed by never knowing her. She would have loved you. She
pretty much always did. And you would have loved her too. You couldn't
help it
Check out Marissa Joy's Facebook and Myspace pages to leave love for Marissa and her family.
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