Morouge Abbass Saavedra passed away from complications due to spinal surgery on July 2, 2017.
In her youth, she was a lively sister, one of six children born to Dr. Majid Abbass and Maimana Osseiran Abbass. Morouge had a flair for fashion, fun, excitement and love for her family.
At the tender age of 19, she was afflicted with a debilitating mental disease that overshadowed the rest of her life. Schizophrenia afflicts those with very high IQs. Morouge was no exception. She was a straight A student all through school. She was a cheerleader at Carbondale Community High School. Her big, beautiful eyes and very long eyelashes were disarming. All her childhood friends from Carbondale, Illinois remember her fondly.
She and her sister Magany Abbass were inseparable all through their childhood. Morouge loved children and eventually had a beautiful daughter, Christine Heiderson. She could not raise Christine so her brother Mazin Heiderson adopted and raised Christine as his own. Her sister, Methal Akins, and brother-in-law, Perry Akins, as well as her beloved nephew, Layth Carlson, helped care for her until she passed away in Los Angeles.
Her family is greatly saddened by the loss but happy that she is free from her illness and is in the arms of God.
The family requests that instead of flowers, donations be made to the Mental Health Alliance of California that supports mentally ill patients and their families: NAMI California in memory of Morouge Saavedra.
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