Angelique Elise Witmer

Angelique Elise Witmer was born in Georgia on June 5th, 1981, living throughout the South for most of her life. Angelique’s life revolved around family, being a public servant and community leader, and music and the arts. She is survived by three children and her husband of almost twenty years. At the age of six months, Angelique was speaking full sentences, and her intellectual proclivity followed her throughout life until it accumulated in a Philosophy degree which informed her ethics and decisions. As a teen, she would often read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Circles essay at Bank’s Lake at her favorite reading spot, and the Transcendentalists encouraged her fearless fight for a safe, clean environment. As she grew, you could often find her wandering the parks with a copy of the Earth First Journal in one hand and a guitar on her back. Over time, she would become a scholar of Jung, Thoreau, Spinoza, Kierkegaard, C.S. Lewis, St. Francis, Swami Vivekananda, Alan Watts, and other thinkers. Angelique spent a decade of her life as a public servant, working with the Attorney General, The Department of Elder Affairs, and elsewhere to become one of the lead elders’ rights representatives in the state, holding titles such as Director of Community Resources and Communications Director. Of all the awards she won and policies she impacted, her greatest accomplishment to her was reuniting a married couple in a nursing home who both had dementia. The staff did not believe they were actually married, and kept them separated before eventually sending them to different facilities. Angelique was an analytical, yet highly empathetic listener who listened to their tale and worked with the appropriate authorities to prove the couple was married, and to reunite them to live their remaining years together. She provided the same level of care to everyone, and two of the ten most powerful officials in the state applauded her continual efforts to protect seniors by writing news articles to commend her. In her sister Elana’s words, “Angelique was an artist, musician, poet, philosopher, sister to six, and mother of four. She was intelligent, empathetic, and always put others before herself. Most of her career was focused on protecting and providing assistance to vulnerable persons and advocating for victims of abuse. She loved her family fiercely…She was my big sister and has always been my hero and the person I looked up to the most.” The Witmer family will be holding a private family service for Angelique and Gavin. Todd Wahlquist is assisting the family with their arrangements (850-385-2193, www.bevisfh.com).

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Angelique Elise Witmer

June 5, 1981 - November 11, 2024