Candace Picard (Justes) born December 11, 1965 of Harvard Illinois
Candace had 6 siblings. Chuck (Marilyn) Justes, Mary (Phil) Hornyak, Jimmy, Danny, Joe, and Rose.
She grow up in Chicago surrounded by cousins and aunts and uncles.
She loved music and going to concerts. She loved her community and neighbors. No matter where we lived Or where she worked she made the ones around her Family.
She enjoyed many things like painting, volunteering and going on car adventures but her favorite adventures were meeting Mike her husband of 37 years. Whom she had 6 children with Amity, Laura (Britten), Mikey (Nicole), Katy (Devan), Paul (Liz) and Serenity Boxlietner (Mikey).
Not to mention all the neighborhood kids she loved and supported as her own.
They began their life in Illinois but then moved out to Arizona and eventually came back to Illinois.
She loved her grandchildren more then life itself. When she first got cancer she never set goals for her but for her Grand kids instead. She had 15 Grandchildren.
She is the definition of Love and strength. She is accompanied in death by her parents, brothers Jimmy, Joe and Danny, and also by her Daughter Amity. She had a long relentless battle with cancer which in the end was her demise. She left this world the same way she lived, surrounded by love, family and music.
Arrangements entrusted to Chicagoland Cremation Options of Schiller Park, Illinois.