Andrea Caldwell, 48, passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2018, after a two-year long, courageous battle with stage four breast cancer. Born Andrea Rochelle Caldwell on November 13, 1970 in Northridge, California to Patricia and Morris Caldwell, she was the adored, pampered baby of the family of nine.
Growing up on a horse ranch, Andrea participated in 4-H and Pony Club. She was ETI Princess, Rider of the Year, and won numerous parade awards. She was a champion horsewoman, earning hundreds of championships and first place ribbons and made it to the finals at Nationals. She showed horses in Arabian Native Costume, Western Pleasure, Saddle Seat, English Pleasure, Halter, Hunter Jumper and Dressage. Andrea's equestrian interests were wide-ranging. Andrea enjoyed adventurous trail rides and camping trips into the mountains and in recent years she joined the Conejo Riders Equestrian Drill Team, and quickly became Captain and Co-Drillmaster of the 22 member team. Andrea loved training horses and riders and particularly delighted in mentoring young people and helping them reach their potential. One of her most amusing and fun jobs was working for Enchanted Carriages where she prepped 2000 lb. horses and lead them in scores of Asian weddings, and drove carriages for special occasions, holidays and for celebrities. Sometimes, she even worked with Elephants, Camels and Zebras. In 2018, when Cavalia Odysseo came to Camarillo she was hired to work with the show horses and they loved her work so much, she was asked to travel with the show to Japan and Arizona, where she was promoted to Barn Manager (her health was not good enough to make it to Japan). Her enduring love for Arabian horses was her greatest joy in life. She never had human children; just the four-legged type, and she was strict but ever so loving to all of them.
In her teens, Andrea participated in the rite of passage, the debutante cotillion; early in her 20's, she studied accounting in college; and her first love taught her how to fly an airplane -- which she found exhilarating! She was an avid square dancer and line dancer and loved a good old fashioned hoedown. She was also very fond of Disneyland and the beach.
Andrea was an exceptionally hard working, strong, courageous and beautiful woman who was admired and loved by her family and friends. She is survived by her fiance, Michael Kudlinski; father, Morris Caldwell; brothers, Ron (Shanshan) Caldwell and Randy Caldwell; sisters, Lynne (Gene) Llafet, Kay Mejia and Cynthia (Marty) Wishka; and many cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews. She is preceded in death by her mother, Patricia Louise Caldwell and sister, Michelle Dionne Caldwell.
Growing up on a horse ranch, Andrea participated in 4-H and Pony Club. She was ETI Princess, Rider of the Year, and won numerous parade awards. She was a champion horsewoman, earning hundreds of championships and first place ribbons and made it to the finals at Nationals. She showed horses in Arabian Native Costume, Western Pleasure, Saddle Seat, English Pleasure, Halter, Hunter Jumper and Dressage. Andrea's equestrian interests were wide-ranging. Andrea enjoyed adventurous trail rides and camping trips into the mountains and in recent years she joined the Conejo Riders Equestrian Drill Team, and quickly became Captain and Co-Drillmaster of the 22 member team. Andrea loved training horses and riders and particularly delighted in mentoring young people and helping them reach their potential. One of her most amusing and fun jobs was working for Enchanted Carriages where she prepped 2000 lb. horses and lead them in scores of Asian weddings, and drove carriages for special occasions, holidays and for celebrities. Sometimes, she even worked with Elephants, Camels and Zebras. In 2018, when Cavalia Odysseo came to Camarillo she was hired to work with the show horses and they loved her work so much, she was asked to travel with the show to Japan and Arizona, where she was promoted to Barn Manager (her health was not good enough to make it to Japan). Her enduring love for Arabian horses was her greatest joy in life. She never had human children; just the four-legged type, and she was strict but ever so loving to all of them.
In her teens, Andrea participated in the rite of passage, the debutante cotillion; early in her 20's, she studied accounting in college; and her first love taught her how to fly an airplane -- which she found exhilarating! She was an avid square dancer and line dancer and loved a good old fashioned hoedown. She was also very fond of Disneyland and the beach.
Andrea was an exceptionally hard working, strong, courageous and beautiful woman who was admired and loved by her family and friends. She is survived by her fiance, Michael Kudlinski; father, Morris Caldwell; brothers, Ron (Shanshan) Caldwell and Randy Caldwell; sisters, Lynne (Gene) Llafet, Kay Mejia and Cynthia (Marty) Wishka; and many cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews. She is preceded in death by her mother, Patricia Louise Caldwell and sister, Michelle Dionne Caldwell.
Andrea Caldwell, 48, passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2018, after a two-year long, courageous battle with stage four breast cancer. Born Andrea Rochelle Caldwell on November 13, 1970 in Northridge, California to Patricia and Morris Caldwell, she was the adored, pampered baby of the family of nine.
Growing up on a horse ranch, Andrea participated in 4-H and Pony Club. She was ETI Princess, Rider of the Year, and won numerous parade awards. She was a champion horsewoman, earning hundreds of championships and first place ribbons and made it to the finals at Nationals. She showed horses in Arabian Native Costume, Western Pleasure, Saddle Seat, English Pleasure, Halter, Hunter Jumper and Dressage. Andrea's equestrian interests were wide-ranging. Andrea enjoyed adventurous trail rides and camping trips into the mountains and in recent years she joined the Conejo Riders Equestrian Drill Team, and quickly became Captain and Co-Drillmaster of the 22 member team. Andrea loved training horses and riders and particularly delighted in mentoring young people and helping them reach their potential. One of her most amusing and fun jobs was working for Enchanted Carriages where she prepped 2000 lb. horses and lead them in scores of Asian weddings, and drove carriages for special occasions, holidays and for celebrities. Sometimes, she even worked with Elephants, Camels and Zebras. In 2018, when Cavalia Odysseo came to Camarillo she was hired to work with the show horses and they loved her work so much, she was asked to travel with the show to Japan and Arizona, where she was promoted to Barn Manager (her health was not good enough to make it to Japan). Her enduring love for Arabian horses was her greatest joy in life. She never had human children; just the four-legged type, and she was strict but ever so loving to all of them.
In her teens, Andrea participated in the rite of passage, the debutante cotillion; early in her 20's, she studied accounting in college; and her first love taught her how to fly an airplane -- which she found exhilarating! She was an avid square dancer and line dancer and loved a good old fashioned hoedown. She was also very fond of Disneyland and the beach.
Andrea was an exceptionally hard working, strong, courageous and beautiful woman who was admired and loved by her family and friends. She is survived by her fiance, Michael Kudlinski; father, Morris Caldwell; brothers, Ron (Shanshan) Caldwell and Randy Caldwell; sisters, Lynne (Gene) Llafet, Kay Mejia and Cynthia (Marty) Wishka; and many cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews. She is preceded in death by her mother, Patricia Louise Caldwell and sister, Michelle Dionne Caldwell.
Growing up on a horse ranch, Andrea participated in 4-H and Pony Club. She was ETI Princess, Rider of the Year, and won numerous parade awards. She was a champion horsewoman, earning hundreds of championships and first place ribbons and made it to the finals at Nationals. She showed horses in Arabian Native Costume, Western Pleasure, Saddle Seat, English Pleasure, Halter, Hunter Jumper and Dressage. Andrea's equestrian interests were wide-ranging. Andrea enjoyed adventurous trail rides and camping trips into the mountains and in recent years she joined the Conejo Riders Equestrian Drill Team, and quickly became Captain and Co-Drillmaster of the 22 member team. Andrea loved training horses and riders and particularly delighted in mentoring young people and helping them reach their potential. One of her most amusing and fun jobs was working for Enchanted Carriages where she prepped 2000 lb. horses and lead them in scores of Asian weddings, and drove carriages for special occasions, holidays and for celebrities. Sometimes, she even worked with Elephants, Camels and Zebras. In 2018, when Cavalia Odysseo came to Camarillo she was hired to work with the show horses and they loved her work so much, she was asked to travel with the show to Japan and Arizona, where she was promoted to Barn Manager (her health was not good enough to make it to Japan). Her enduring love for Arabian horses was her greatest joy in life. She never had human children; just the four-legged type, and she was strict but ever so loving to all of them.
In her teens, Andrea participated in the rite of passage, the debutante cotillion; early in her 20's, she studied accounting in college; and her first love taught her how to fly an airplane -- which she found exhilarating! She was an avid square dancer and line dancer and loved a good old fashioned hoedown. She was also very fond of Disneyland and the beach.
Andrea was an exceptionally hard working, strong, courageous and beautiful woman who was admired and loved by her family and friends. She is survived by her fiance, Michael Kudlinski; father, Morris Caldwell; brothers, Ron (Shanshan) Caldwell and Randy Caldwell; sisters, Lynne (Gene) Llafet, Kay Mejia and Cynthia (Marty) Wishka; and many cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews. She is preceded in death by her mother, Patricia Louise Caldwell and sister, Michelle Dionne Caldwell.
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