Camsie Siemon Thickett
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Camsie Siemon Thickett,
1988 - 2021
WOODBURY, CT - Camsie was named for her maternal great grandmother, a unique name for a unique person. She was the youngest child, and she was the rock of our family. Thirty-three years old and wise and kind and caring and beautiful from the inside to the outside. Camsie and her husband Peter fit together so perfectly that they made the good in each other greater and greater. After graduating from Fairfield University with her master's degree in psychology, she went to work full time helping people with mental illness. Naturally shy yet strong, Camsie had a fear of public speaking which she faced and overcame to become a highly skilled and effective group session therapist. Camsie was fiercely loyal to those she loved, and she had a gift for easing a person's pain.
During COVID times, she discovered two new passions - creating beautiful artwork of sculptures and drawings and communing with Nature on long walks in the woods and working in the gardens. Her love for Nature gave her a deep joy that she wanted to share with others. In recent months she was planning a foundation and researching ways to give others the opportunity to walk the trails in her woods and visit various stations along the way that would provide sensory and educational experiences. She believed in the therapeutic power of disconnecting from electronics and immersing in the sights and sounds and smells and feel of trees and flowers and birds and the other wonders of the forest. She imagined that after visiting her trails, people would leave happier and healthier than when they arrived.
The world has lost a wonderful young woman. Camsie was the person that God intended humans to be before Eve ate the apple. We don't know why she died. Maybe she was just too good for this world. We love you Camsie with all our hearts.... always.
Camsie leaves behind her husband Peter Thickett, her mother and father Beth and Carl Siemon, sister Taylor Anne, brother Carl Joseph, mother and father-in-law Penny and Eric Thickett, her grandmother, Mary Ruth Siemon, and many Aunts, Uncles, nieces and nephews, dogs Alfie and Walter and Jack the cat.
Services are private and have been entrusted to the Hickcox Funeral Home, 195 Main Street., Watertown, CT.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions in Camsie's name be made only to the Flanders Nature Center, 5 Church Hill Road, Woodbury, CT 06798. To leave an online message of condolence, please visit www.hickcoxfuneralhome.com.