Samantha Joy Guppy

Samantha (Sam) Joy Guppy, 22, of Hebron, Connecticut, passed away peacefully while she slept in her dorm room at Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) on January 22, 2025. Sam was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on July 11, 2002, was a 2020 graduate of RHAM High School, and was most currently a junior at ECSU studying Public Health with a minor in Psychology. Sam was an advocate for all lifestyles, abilities and conditions, she will be remembered for her bright and outgoing personality and her kindness that was inherent part of her. Her passion in life was to help people and spread kindness which she did as an intern over the summer at CCAR in Willimantic and previously as part of the Attwood Dementia group in Hebron.

Sam is survived by her parents Jay (James) and Sheila (Means) Guppy and her sister Michelle Guppy of Hebron.  Also surviving are her grandparents Candy (Guppy) and Rodger Smith of Chillicothe Illinois, three cousins, and many aunts and uncles. She is proceeded in death by her grandfather James Means of Peoria, Illinois.

A celebration of Sam’s life will be held at Eastern Connecticut State University in the Library- Johnson Room on February 7, 2025 from 2 to 4:30 pm. 

The family ask in lieu of flowers to consider a dotation in Sam’s memory to either Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hole in the Wall Gang Camp or Make A Wish all which supported her throughout different times of her life.   

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