Alissa Rider

Obituary of Alissa Leah Rider

May 11, 2001 – Calgary, Alberta

December 22, 2022 – Calgary, Alberta

 

Alissa Leah Rider, born May 11, 2001, passed away on Thursday, December 22, 2022, at the age of 21 years in Calgary, Alberta.

 

She began her early years in Eden Valley and eventually moved to Calgary where she was raised by the Perez family, who loved her dearly. She went to school in Calgary at the St. Sebastian Elementary school and Father James Whelian school where she joined a football team and played soccer in her younger years. She enjoyed being with her friends. She was skilled at cosmetology and loved to do her own makeup. She also loved fashion and loved to dress up and buy new clothes. Even as a little girl, she loved to dress up like a “princess”, she would say.

 

Alissa loved children and looked forward to becoming a mother someday. She loved all her nieces and nephews and was a really good caretaker. She had a passion and gift for cooking and taught herself to cook many new meals. Like her late mother Lisa, she was an animal lover but especially had a soft spot for cats. Although Alissa grew up away from her home community, she (with the support of her foster parents) kept a close relationship with her siblings and close family from Eden Valley.

 

Alissa is survived by her foster parents, Marco and Maria Perez, Darci-Lee Rider (Emil Manyguns) and Tanner Rider; her foster siblings Melissa Dixon, Dustin Dixon, Claudia Asaff and Marco Perez Jr; and her paternal grandmother Eleanor Daniels. Alissa is predeceased in death by her biological parents Lisa Rider and John Daniels; her half-brother Turgeon Daniels, and her maternal grandparents Clifford and Gaye Rider.

 

Wake will be held at the residence of Darci-lee Rider on Saturday, December 31, 2022, and January 1, 2023. Funeral Services will take place at Eden Valley Centex, and burial and potluck feast to follow at the Rider Residence.

 

In living memory of Alissa Rider, a tree will be planted in the Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area by McInnis & Holloway Funeral Homes, Fish Creek, 14441 Bannister Road SE, Calgary, Ab t2x 3j3, Telephone: 403-256-9575.

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