\u201cI think she used some of the money from the house to travel,\u201d Rancher said. \u201cShe was like, \u2018Well, I\u2019ve got equity, so I might as well use it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The two argued over how smart a move that was, but Rancher recalls conceding.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe did it her way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Well-Being<\/p>\n
Sullivan, a former master Child Protective Services social worker, was one of 50 area seniors featured in The OBSERVER\u2019s \u201cThe Skin We\u2019re In\u201d special edition published in 2025. In it, she shared the joys of \u201cliving in her purpose\u201d and the belief that age is simply a number.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I\u2019m realizing about my mother is how much she was so full of life,\u201d Rancher said. \u201cUnfortunately, at the end, she couldn’t talk and that\u2019s what drove me crazy because she was always talking and always so animated. People say, \u2018May she rest in peace\u2019 and I say, \u2018I don\u2019t think she will, because she has so much more to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Sullivan thought her mother would live well into her 90s, given her health-conscious nature and the fact that her own mother made it to age 93. Sullivan discovered yoga while living in Berkeley in the 1970s.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe loved hot yoga, yin yoga, yoga nidra,\u201d Rancher said. \u201cShe loved mindfulness practice and she still did that as she got older.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toward the end of her life, she exclusively practiced yoga nidra, often described as \u201csleep yoga\u201d because it is performed lying down.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe would do that online and the woman who led that created some guides for her as she was transitioning to kind of help her breathe,\u201d Rancher said. \u201cShe\u2019s got a great community of people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sullivan\u2019s community included her beloved Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She was a proud member of the Stockton Alumnae Chapter. Having joined in 1988, she prided herself on never missing a national convention in almost 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think she used some of the money from the house to travel,\u201d Rancher said. \u201cShe was like,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[144726,10238,9739,121,123,122,483],"class_list":["post-354849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-community-updates","tag-obituaries","tag-print","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-stockton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}