Roni Lee Castillo

Roni Lee Castillo passed away on October 9th 2025 at Good Shepard Medical Center in Hermiston Oregon surrounded by a mass of beloved friends and family at 31 years of age. She was born May 18th, 1994 in Baker City Oregon to my mother Rebecca and my father Steven.

Roni was a talented athlete. While she was an exceptional softball player, basketball player, track star and cheerleader, it was soccer where she really shined and excelled. Going to state multiple times and even being offered to compete overseas. She had a deep rooted love and affection for animals, and had many pets like King, Jazzy, and Chloe for whom she would give everything.

She was smart and determined, leveraging those abilities to hold a position in electrical at Marlette for 2 years with plans and dreams of furthering her education in that field. She was very outgoing and adventurous. She somehow could find a way to assimilate into any group or activity and people loved her for it, because she genuinely was interested in others and found a way to connect with them.

I wish I could dedicate an entire page for her but even then it would not be enough to match the void that has been left in a world where we no longer get to hear her laugh or see her smile or feel the warmth of her hugs. In what sometimes feels like a materialistic world, she was the real deal.

Roni was preceded in death by her best friend Lacey Ostrom, Her Aunt Roxanne Burgess, her aunt Anna Castillo, her brother Patrick Maahs, her grandfathers Ron Burgess and Rudy Castillo, and her grandmother Shirley Burgess.

She is survived by her brothers Steven, Jose, Robert, James, Dustin  and her sisters Anna, Cassandra, Stephanie, Jessica, and Stacey, many aunts and uncles and army of friends, her father and stepmother Elizabeth and Steven Castillo and her mother and stepfather, Rebecca and Bernard Hecker.

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