" I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one,
I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of
happy times and laughing times and brighten sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun, of
happy memories that I leave when life is done."
- Unknown
Chassey Ako is happier now, according to her friends.
She's with her sister.
UNLV students mourned the loss Monday of the 19-year-old Ako, who died Saturday after she collapsed at a sorority recruitment event.
University officials said Ako, a second-year student, had a seizure and stopped breathing about 3:30 p.m. in the Flora Dungan Humanities building. She died shortly afterward at Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center.
The cause of death remains unknown, the Clark County coroner's office said.
"Remember the good times about your children," her father, John Ako, said after a Monday evening vigil for her at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Because they far outweigh the bad times, when there are bad times."
He, his wife and their oldest daughter lost Chassey Ako's older sister in June. Shelby Ako, 21, was slain in her Las Vegas apartment. Weeks later, a Las Vegas police officer shot and killed the suspect after he killed another woman and attacked the officer.
"Being so close in age and physical resemblance could almost constitute for her and I being twins!" Chassey Ako had written recently on a memorial Web site to her sister that she had sponsored. "It was always fun to mess with people who never knew the difference. What I miss most about her is our 'sister humor,' something nobody or no one could understand, even if you listened."
Her friends comforted the parents, some questioned their own mortality, and others described signs they believed came from her.
"You are finally happy and are back with your sister," one of her sorority sisters said at the vigil. "We know you were there in the room telling us you were OK."
About 500 students were on campus Saturday afternoon for the sorority recruiting parties, nonalcoholic, formal events that allow students to learn more about individual sororities.
Chassey Ako was waiting for more recruits to come to the Delta Zeta room when she began to have a seizure, university officials said.
As she went into cardiac arrest, about 40 of her sorority sisters were with her in the room, said Rebecca Mills, vice president for student life. At least one student called 911 on a cell phone.
The Clark County Fire Department and campus police responded.
"She was unconscious when she left, and she was not breathing on her own," Mills said.
The university Greek community is small, with about 1,000 students, 4 percent of the undergraduate student body, participating.
Members said they are a tightknit group that uniformly felt the loss of Ako. More than 300 students, including Greeks, alumni and faculty attended the vigil outside the student union on the alumni amphitheater.
"She brought the sorority together. It was just ... she was a remarkable person," said Maggie Maher, 20, who rushed with Ako last year.
"She was the most beautiful person," Laura Brison, 19, said.
The death is difficult to swallow, John Ako said. He plans to create a scholarship for her with the sorority.
He said his daughter worked as a full-time student in the hotel management program. She was also a hostess at rumjungle. He described her as energetic, popular and said that he will miss "the big old toothy grin" of hers.
University officials suspended sorority recruitment Saturday, and activities are expected to resume Sept. 25.
According to the Fallon Star Press, Chassey Ako was a 2004 high school graduate from Churchill County High School, where she was a student body president.
She received a scholarship for community service she performed at Fallon thrift shops.
Sorority adviser Jamie Hemington said anyone wishing to send condolences should send them to the Delta Zeta Foundation in her name.
"I think they're holding up as well as can be expected," she said of the Delta Zeta members. "With time, they will heal."
Chassey Lehua Ako
Chassey Lehua Ako, 19, passed away suddenly in Las Vegas on Sept. 10, 2005. She was born Dec. 17, 1985 in Oak Harbor, Wash. to John and Amy Ako.
Chassey graduated from Churchill County High School in 2004 and she was attending UNLV, where she was a second year student. Chassey was a girl who excelled in everything she did, loved being with her friends, going out dancing and loved to write.
She was preceded in death in June of this year by her sister, Shelby Ako, and grandmother Elizabeth Ako.
Chassey is survived by her father and mother, both of Fallon, sister Rachel Ako of Las Vegas, grandfather Lancelot Ako, Sr., numerous aunts, uncles and cousins in Hawaii and the Phillippines, and many friends in Las Vegas and Fallon.
A celebration of her life will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, at 1 p.m. at The Gardens Chapel in Fallon, Nevada. A luncheon will follow in The Gardens Gathering Room.
In lieu of flowers the family wishes donations in her memory be mailed to the Ako Family, 1081 Amiee Lane, Fallon, NV 89406 for a scholarship fund.
Arrangements are under the direction of The Gardens Funeral Home, Crematory, Cemetery, 2949 Austin Highway, Fallon, 775-423-8928.
I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of
happy times and laughing times and brighten sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun, of
happy memories that I leave when life is done."
- Unknown
Chassey Ako is happier now, according to her friends.
She's with her sister.
UNLV students mourned the loss Monday of the 19-year-old Ako, who died Saturday after she collapsed at a sorority recruitment event.
University officials said Ako, a second-year student, had a seizure and stopped breathing about 3:30 p.m. in the Flora Dungan Humanities building. She died shortly afterward at Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center.
The cause of death remains unknown, the Clark County coroner's office said.
"Remember the good times about your children," her father, John Ako, said after a Monday evening vigil for her at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Because they far outweigh the bad times, when there are bad times."
He, his wife and their oldest daughter lost Chassey Ako's older sister in June. Shelby Ako, 21, was slain in her Las Vegas apartment. Weeks later, a Las Vegas police officer shot and killed the suspect after he killed another woman and attacked the officer.
"Being so close in age and physical resemblance could almost constitute for her and I being twins!" Chassey Ako had written recently on a memorial Web site to her sister that she had sponsored. "It was always fun to mess with people who never knew the difference. What I miss most about her is our 'sister humor,' something nobody or no one could understand, even if you listened."
Her friends comforted the parents, some questioned their own mortality, and others described signs they believed came from her.
"You are finally happy and are back with your sister," one of her sorority sisters said at the vigil. "We know you were there in the room telling us you were OK."
About 500 students were on campus Saturday afternoon for the sorority recruiting parties, nonalcoholic, formal events that allow students to learn more about individual sororities.
Chassey Ako was waiting for more recruits to come to the Delta Zeta room when she began to have a seizure, university officials said.
As she went into cardiac arrest, about 40 of her sorority sisters were with her in the room, said Rebecca Mills, vice president for student life. At least one student called 911 on a cell phone.
The Clark County Fire Department and campus police responded.
"She was unconscious when she left, and she was not breathing on her own," Mills said.
The university Greek community is small, with about 1,000 students, 4 percent of the undergraduate student body, participating.
Members said they are a tightknit group that uniformly felt the loss of Ako. More than 300 students, including Greeks, alumni and faculty attended the vigil outside the student union on the alumni amphitheater.
"She brought the sorority together. It was just ... she was a remarkable person," said Maggie Maher, 20, who rushed with Ako last year.
"She was the most beautiful person," Laura Brison, 19, said.
The death is difficult to swallow, John Ako said. He plans to create a scholarship for her with the sorority.
He said his daughter worked as a full-time student in the hotel management program. She was also a hostess at rumjungle. He described her as energetic, popular and said that he will miss "the big old toothy grin" of hers.
University officials suspended sorority recruitment Saturday, and activities are expected to resume Sept. 25.
According to the Fallon Star Press, Chassey Ako was a 2004 high school graduate from Churchill County High School, where she was a student body president.
She received a scholarship for community service she performed at Fallon thrift shops.
Sorority adviser Jamie Hemington said anyone wishing to send condolences should send them to the Delta Zeta Foundation in her name.
"I think they're holding up as well as can be expected," she said of the Delta Zeta members. "With time, they will heal."
Chassey Lehua Ako
Chassey Lehua Ako, 19, passed away suddenly in Las Vegas on Sept. 10, 2005. She was born Dec. 17, 1985 in Oak Harbor, Wash. to John and Amy Ako.
Chassey graduated from Churchill County High School in 2004 and she was attending UNLV, where she was a second year student. Chassey was a girl who excelled in everything she did, loved being with her friends, going out dancing and loved to write.
She was preceded in death in June of this year by her sister, Shelby Ako, and grandmother Elizabeth Ako.
Chassey is survived by her father and mother, both of Fallon, sister Rachel Ako of Las Vegas, grandfather Lancelot Ako, Sr., numerous aunts, uncles and cousins in Hawaii and the Phillippines, and many friends in Las Vegas and Fallon.
A celebration of her life will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, at 1 p.m. at The Gardens Chapel in Fallon, Nevada. A luncheon will follow in The Gardens Gathering Room.
In lieu of flowers the family wishes donations in her memory be mailed to the Ako Family, 1081 Amiee Lane, Fallon, NV 89406 for a scholarship fund.
Arrangements are under the direction of The Gardens Funeral Home, Crematory, Cemetery, 2949 Austin Highway, Fallon, 775-423-8928.
" I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one,
I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of
happy times and laughing times and brighten sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun, of
happy memories that I leave when life is done."
- Unknown
Chassey Ako is happier now, according to her friends.
She's with her sister.
UNLV students mourned the loss Monday of the 19-year-old Ako, who died Saturday after she collapsed at a sorority recruitment event.
University officials said Ako, a second-year student, had a seizure and stopped breathing about 3:30 p.m. in the Flora Dungan Humanities building. She died shortly afterward at Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center.
The cause of death remains unknown, the Clark County coroner's office said.
"Remember the good times about your children," her father, John Ako, said after a Monday evening vigil for her at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Because they far outweigh the bad times, when there are bad times."
He, his wife and their oldest daughter lost Chassey Ako's older sister in June. Shelby Ako, 21, was slain in her Las Vegas apartment. Weeks later, a Las Vegas police officer shot and killed the suspect after he killed another woman and attacked the officer.
"Being so close in age and physical resemblance could almost constitute for her and I being twins!" Chassey Ako had written recently on a memorial Web site to her sister that she had sponsored. "It was always fun to mess with people who never knew the difference. What I miss most about her is our 'sister humor,' something nobody or no one could understand, even if you listened."
Her friends comforted the parents, some questioned their own mortality, and others described signs they believed came from her.
"You are finally happy and are back with your sister," one of her sorority sisters said at the vigil. "We know you were there in the room telling us you were OK."
About 500 students were on campus Saturday afternoon for the sorority recruiting parties, nonalcoholic, formal events that allow students to learn more about individual sororities.
Chassey Ako was waiting for more recruits to come to the Delta Zeta room when she began to have a seizure, university officials said.
As she went into cardiac arrest, about 40 of her sorority sisters were with her in the room, said Rebecca Mills, vice president for student life. At least one student called 911 on a cell phone.
The Clark County Fire Department and campus police responded.
"She was unconscious when she left, and she was not breathing on her own," Mills said.
The university Greek community is small, with about 1,000 students, 4 percent of the undergraduate student body, participating.
Members said they are a tightknit group that uniformly felt the loss of Ako. More than 300 students, including Greeks, alumni and faculty attended the vigil outside the student union on the alumni amphitheater.
"She brought the sorority together. It was just ... she was a remarkable person," said Maggie Maher, 20, who rushed with Ako last year.
"She was the most beautiful person," Laura Brison, 19, said.
The death is difficult to swallow, John Ako said. He plans to create a scholarship for her with the sorority.
He said his daughter worked as a full-time student in the hotel management program. She was also a hostess at rumjungle. He described her as energetic, popular and said that he will miss "the big old toothy grin" of hers.
University officials suspended sorority recruitment Saturday, and activities are expected to resume Sept. 25.
According to the Fallon Star Press, Chassey Ako was a 2004 high school graduate from Churchill County High School, where she was a student body president.
She received a scholarship for community service she performed at Fallon thrift shops.
Sorority adviser Jamie Hemington said anyone wishing to send condolences should send them to the Delta Zeta Foundation in her name.
"I think they're holding up as well as can be expected," she said of the Delta Zeta members. "With time, they will heal."
Chassey Lehua Ako
Chassey Lehua Ako, 19, passed away suddenly in Las Vegas on Sept. 10, 2005. She was born Dec. 17, 1985 in Oak Harbor, Wash. to John and Amy Ako.
Chassey graduated from Churchill County High School in 2004 and she was attending UNLV, where she was a second year student. Chassey was a girl who excelled in everything she did, loved being with her friends, going out dancing and loved to write.
She was preceded in death in June of this year by her sister, Shelby Ako, and grandmother Elizabeth Ako.
Chassey is survived by her father and mother, both of Fallon, sister Rachel Ako of Las Vegas, grandfather Lancelot Ako, Sr., numerous aunts, uncles and cousins in Hawaii and the Phillippines, and many friends in Las Vegas and Fallon.
A celebration of her life will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, at 1 p.m. at The Gardens Chapel in Fallon, Nevada. A luncheon will follow in The Gardens Gathering Room.
In lieu of flowers the family wishes donations in her memory be mailed to the Ako Family, 1081 Amiee Lane, Fallon, NV 89406 for a scholarship fund.
Arrangements are under the direction of The Gardens Funeral Home, Crematory, Cemetery, 2949 Austin Highway, Fallon, 775-423-8928.
I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of
happy times and laughing times and brighten sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun, of
happy memories that I leave when life is done."
- Unknown
Chassey Ako is happier now, according to her friends.
She's with her sister.
UNLV students mourned the loss Monday of the 19-year-old Ako, who died Saturday after she collapsed at a sorority recruitment event.
University officials said Ako, a second-year student, had a seizure and stopped breathing about 3:30 p.m. in the Flora Dungan Humanities building. She died shortly afterward at Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center.
The cause of death remains unknown, the Clark County coroner's office said.
"Remember the good times about your children," her father, John Ako, said after a Monday evening vigil for her at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Because they far outweigh the bad times, when there are bad times."
He, his wife and their oldest daughter lost Chassey Ako's older sister in June. Shelby Ako, 21, was slain in her Las Vegas apartment. Weeks later, a Las Vegas police officer shot and killed the suspect after he killed another woman and attacked the officer.
"Being so close in age and physical resemblance could almost constitute for her and I being twins!" Chassey Ako had written recently on a memorial Web site to her sister that she had sponsored. "It was always fun to mess with people who never knew the difference. What I miss most about her is our 'sister humor,' something nobody or no one could understand, even if you listened."
Her friends comforted the parents, some questioned their own mortality, and others described signs they believed came from her.
"You are finally happy and are back with your sister," one of her sorority sisters said at the vigil. "We know you were there in the room telling us you were OK."
About 500 students were on campus Saturday afternoon for the sorority recruiting parties, nonalcoholic, formal events that allow students to learn more about individual sororities.
Chassey Ako was waiting for more recruits to come to the Delta Zeta room when she began to have a seizure, university officials said.
As she went into cardiac arrest, about 40 of her sorority sisters were with her in the room, said Rebecca Mills, vice president for student life. At least one student called 911 on a cell phone.
The Clark County Fire Department and campus police responded.
"She was unconscious when she left, and she was not breathing on her own," Mills said.
The university Greek community is small, with about 1,000 students, 4 percent of the undergraduate student body, participating.
Members said they are a tightknit group that uniformly felt the loss of Ako. More than 300 students, including Greeks, alumni and faculty attended the vigil outside the student union on the alumni amphitheater.
"She brought the sorority together. It was just ... she was a remarkable person," said Maggie Maher, 20, who rushed with Ako last year.
"She was the most beautiful person," Laura Brison, 19, said.
The death is difficult to swallow, John Ako said. He plans to create a scholarship for her with the sorority.
He said his daughter worked as a full-time student in the hotel management program. She was also a hostess at rumjungle. He described her as energetic, popular and said that he will miss "the big old toothy grin" of hers.
University officials suspended sorority recruitment Saturday, and activities are expected to resume Sept. 25.
According to the Fallon Star Press, Chassey Ako was a 2004 high school graduate from Churchill County High School, where she was a student body president.
She received a scholarship for community service she performed at Fallon thrift shops.
Sorority adviser Jamie Hemington said anyone wishing to send condolences should send them to the Delta Zeta Foundation in her name.
"I think they're holding up as well as can be expected," she said of the Delta Zeta members. "With time, they will heal."
Chassey Lehua Ako
Chassey Lehua Ako, 19, passed away suddenly in Las Vegas on Sept. 10, 2005. She was born Dec. 17, 1985 in Oak Harbor, Wash. to John and Amy Ako.
Chassey graduated from Churchill County High School in 2004 and she was attending UNLV, where she was a second year student. Chassey was a girl who excelled in everything she did, loved being with her friends, going out dancing and loved to write.
She was preceded in death in June of this year by her sister, Shelby Ako, and grandmother Elizabeth Ako.
Chassey is survived by her father and mother, both of Fallon, sister Rachel Ako of Las Vegas, grandfather Lancelot Ako, Sr., numerous aunts, uncles and cousins in Hawaii and the Phillippines, and many friends in Las Vegas and Fallon.
A celebration of her life will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, at 1 p.m. at The Gardens Chapel in Fallon, Nevada. A luncheon will follow in The Gardens Gathering Room.
In lieu of flowers the family wishes donations in her memory be mailed to the Ako Family, 1081 Amiee Lane, Fallon, NV 89406 for a scholarship fund.
Arrangements are under the direction of The Gardens Funeral Home, Crematory, Cemetery, 2949 Austin Highway, Fallon, 775-423-8928.
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