Patsy Cathey was from Memphis, Tennessee, and the day she died, August 11, 2015, became one of those dates that divides a family’s history into before and after. She was a 32-year-old Black woman, and the way her name appears in public records and brief notices feels like a shadow of the full person she must have been—reduced to a line of text, a date, a few formal arrangements, and then the heavy finality of loss.
For the people who loved her, her death would not have arrived as a si
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