Autumn Paige Sansom
October 5, 1978 - February 23, 2007
On February 23, 2007, a pickup and bicycle accident caused the death of Autumn Paige Sansom, age 28, in Bothell, Washington.
She was the daughter of Fredell Schwartz Sansom of Tuscola, Texas, and the late Mickey Sansom. Her grandparents are Sidney and Sarah Schwartz of Bay City. She was attending Bastyr Medical School in Bothell.
Her survivors are: mother; brothers, Taylor of Arlington, Texas and Marc and Tonya of Friendswood, Texas; uncles, Harvey and Lynn of Suwanee, Georgia, Stacy and Tonya Schwartz of Bay City; niece, Madison Sansom and nephews, Alex and Jake Sansom of Friendswood; cousins, Clay, Reed, Lauren, Nicole, Aaron & Rachel Schwartz.
Autumn was an organ donor and Memorial Services are to be held on March 10, 2007 in Tuscola.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Fallen cyclist was a "star" at Bastyr
By Peyton Whitely
Seattle Times eastside bureau
From her apartment on Locust Way north of Kenmore to Bastyr University is barely five miles, and Autumn Sansom had made the ride on her bicycle nearly every day since she enrolled at the school in 2005.
On Friday, the ride turned to tragedy, when Sansom, 28, was fatally injured in a collision with a pickup in the 15000 block of Juanita Drive Northeast at about 5:15 p.m. as she was riding home from classes.
She was in her second year of a doctoral program in naturopathic medicine and was viewed as a "bright star" at the school, said Teri Thomas, university spokeswoman.
"She was very bright, well-loved, a cheerful, lively young woman," said Thomas. "She was going to be a gifted and natural healer."
The King County Sheriff's Office reported the collision took place when Sansom was northbound along Juanita Drive just north of the entrance to the Bastyr campus. Her bicycle collided with a truck driven by a 46-year-old Kirkland man as he was leaving a store parking lot. The driver, whose name was not released, was not injured.
Sansom later died at Harborview Medical Center. The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
Sansom was from Tuscola, Texas, and in 1997 received a biology degree from what was then Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos.
"She always wanted to help people, that was a dream of hers, to be a naturopathic physician," said her mother, Fredell Sansom. "It was a calling."
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