Caroll Perez

08/25/1949 - 06/29/2024

With great sadness the was vivacious and jovial. Even Perez family announces the in illness, she never lost her passing of beloved sister, good nature and zest for mother and grandmother, life. An avid traveler, in her Caroll Lynn Rose Perez. Caroll later years, Caroll visited died peacefully in Oakland, Ireland, France, Spain, and California, on Saturday Italy with her son, Jason, and evening, June 29, after a his husband, Alex. She loved year-long, courageous battle Hawaii and enjoyed several with cancer. holidays there, visiting all of

Born Caroll Cummings in the major islands. She held a Vancouver, British Columbia special place in her heart for on August 25, 1949, Caroll frequent visits to Mendocino

nd lived with her family in with family and friends. She Europe during her formative once took that rarest of years while her step-father adventures: a trip around the served in the US Army. The world from San Francisco to family later settled in California Europe, Turkey and Japan. and lived in San Francisco Caroll’s warm and happy before moving to Sacramento nature was an inspiration to where Caroll married Rafael all who had the pleasure of Perez. They had two sons, knowing and loving her. She Rafael, Jr., and Jason. After loved nothing more than her divorce from Rafael, she spending evenings with family moved with her son, Jason, and friends chatting about to Nashville, Tennessee. She her travels and a variety of returned to the Bay Area in interests, including gardening 2012 and settled in Alameda and reading. Caroll had to be closer to her family. an egalitarian spirit and felt

Throughout her life, Caroll passionately that everyone should be treated kindly and fairly. She worked hard in order to buy a home for her and her children, sometimes working three jobs at once. In later life she enjoyed her work with children at Edison Elementary School. She also worked as a school crossing guard and enjoyed her volunteer work for St. Anthony’s in San Francisco. Caroll’s life experience instilled in her a deep empathy for those who worked hard to survive and succeed.

Caroll is survived by her sons, Rafael Perez, Jr., (Vanessa) of Sacramento, Jason Perez (Alex Chen) of San Francisco, two grandchildren (Madeline and Ryan), siblings (Don, Victoria and Stan), and her cat, Cisco.

Caroll will be greatly missed, but her impact on all of our lives will be felt forever.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations can be made on Caroll’s behalf to the American Cancer Society at https://do.nr/qhtffges