Kelcey Ann Hoffman

Kelcey Ann Hoffman died peacefully on Thursday December 15 when she slipped into a coma while being treated for sudden-onset leukemia in Bellevue, Washington. She was 36 years old. She was a beautiful, vibrant, strong, smart, active young woman who loved travel and adventure and friends, and she lived life fully.

Kelcey traveled to more than 60 foreign countries, lived in several of them and made friends everywhere, but Rome was her first foreign home where she gave tours of the Vatican, and it remained a favorite. Kelcey climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, ran with the bulls in Pamplona, scuba dived in the Red Sea and off Burma, went to Carnival in Venice and New Orleans, ballooned over Cappadocia, paraglided over Beirut, skied in Colorado, ran marathons in Dubai, and pet tigers in Thailand and lion cubs in South Africa among other adventures. She loved cats of all sizes and kinds.

Kelcey was born in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, but spent her childhood in Bellevue. She graduated in 1998 from Bellevue High School where she played soccer and ran track and cross-country and threw the javelin. In 2002 she graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a degree in English. After recently living in Johannesburg SA she had moved back to Bellevue to be with family.

She is survived by her parents Patricia and Dale Hoffman, both of Bellevue, and her aunt Mary Hoffman of Lynnwood, WA.

She would want her friends to drink a glass of wine and think about good times they had together.