Amanda Dee Freemantle
November 27, 1985 - September 22, 2022

Amanda Freemantle, of Eureka passed away on September 22, 2022, in Ava, Missouri following a hard-fought four-year battle with liver cancer. Amanda was born on Thanksgiving Day November 27, 1985, to Suzanne Shaw- Brady and Jim Lapham in Eureka. Amanda attended local schools, she graduated from Eureka Senior High school class of 2003. Amanda and her high school sweetheart Nick Freemantle married on June 13, 2015. Together they were raising their five beautiful children, Kaidence, Paul, Wyatt, Kodi, and Liam. Amanda’s husband and children were the sunshine of her soul…

Amanda graduated from Columbia College with her AA and continued her education at Humboldt State University. She graduated with her BA in Fine Arts May 13, 2017. Amanda’s goal was to become an elementary art schoolteacher. Amanda was a woman of many, many talents! She illustrated several “Barney Tales” books for local children’s author Noni Morton. Amanda also participated in Arts Alive and Pastels on the Plaza. She entered her artwork with the Arcata Oyster Festival and Arcata Main Street. Amanda was very proud to have her first art show with the Redwood Art Association.

After Amanda’s diagnosis with cancer, she started her rock painting to pass time, she created wonderful, stoned paintings to give to family and friends. When Amanda was little, she wanted to learn how to crochet like her grandma Dee. Grandma Dee taught Amanda and the outcome was cute baby blankets.

Amanda discovered another of her many talents: a green thumb and became an awesome gardener. She was always creating her secret garden retreat, which evolved into her canning and preserving anything she thought she could get her family to eat. Her canned Tuna was a family delight! Amanda enjoyed entertaining family and friends, especially on the holidays. She could cook and bake like no other because many of her baked goods were artistic creations. There was no end to her baking skills!

One of Amanda’s favorite events of the year was hosting her annual Halloween party, every year had a different theme. She created extremely detailed face paintings and costumes for her family and friends. The girl rocked every designshe created. Amanda also discovered her love for photography, she captured the love she had for life in many of her photos, from weddings to her children’s events.

Amanda refused to let cancer dictate how she lived her life. She did her best to live each day to the fullest with high spirits. She was a very tough woman and fought courageously to the very end. One of Amanda’s last posts on Facebook said it like it was, “Amanda is like no other woman you will ever meet - she has the heart of an angel and the spirit of a warrior”. She also posted a note to all of us back in August, “don’t take life for granted, you never know how many moments you’re promised!”

Amanda is survived by the love of her life/soul mate Nick Freemantle and their five beautiful children, Kaidence, Paul, Wyatt, Kodi, and Liam. She is also survived by mother Suzanne Brady (Mark), her father James Lapham (Dorothy), her stepdad David Bowerman, her grandfathers, Jim Shaw and Ron Lapham, her in-laws Bob and Nancy Freemantle. She is also survived by siblings, uncles, aunties, cousins, nieces, nephews, and an extremely large group of wonderful friends, especially her soul sister Alisha McNeese. Though she may seem far away, we will never part. For part of her lives on with all of us, forever in our hearts.

Amanda will be greatly missed yet her legacy lives on in all her children, family, and friends. We walk in a better place because of the present she gifted us is love. Our beautiful loving daughter Amanda left of us to spread her wings across the Ocean.

There will be a Celebration of Life for Amanda on this Saturday, October 22, 2022, at 1 p.m. Humboldt Grange 5845 Humboldt Hill Road, Eureka. The celebration will be Halloween-themed in honor of Amanda’s love of the holiday.