Lighting a Candle

and igniting a fire in memoriam

This morning, we are grieving the loss of a beloved Pantsuit Politics friend. Rebekah Hardwick Massmann passed away from colon cancer and secondary liver cancer. The page set up to support her family says that she passed peacefully, surrounded by love.

We’ve met Rebekah. We’ve seen her voting photos. We’ve read and thought long and hard about her comments. She is a part of us, and we will miss her.

Please join us in lighting a candle for Rebekah. Her family and friends have told us that the best way we can honor her is to continue the work of community and justice that she believed in and work for until her very last days. Call your representatives because that’s what she would have done. Serve your community because that’s what she did. Love your friends’ kids and littles because it takes a village.

Her husband, Ben, shared "Rebekah would never want things to be all about her, but if her story and passion can help ignite others, she would accept that"

Let us light a candle and ignite our passions.

Many thanks to Ben, Heather, and Denise, and those of your who made sure we knew this sad news and letting us hold them in our hearts this week as they say goodbye to their wife, sister, mom, and friend, so that we can commemorate Rebekah’s life together here. We are blessed by the many ways you all create and keep building a loving community here. Rebekah was an architect of that, too, and we will always be grateful to her. -Beth