By all accounts Cathie Albers was a fighter.
The Finley woman survived a heart attack, stroke and brain tumor operation that doctors thought she wouldn’t live through.
Cathrine “Cathie” Albers.
Cathrine “Cathie” Albers. Courtesy Bobby Dale Albers
But the burns she suffered last week when her bedroom caught fire proved too much. Albers, 63, died on her birthday on Saturday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
“When the fire broke out, Cathie was asleep in her bedroom,” said her husband Bobby Dale Albers, a well-known Tri-City veterans advocate.
He was playing pool with friends Oct. 9 in a clubhouse behind their home on South Finley Road. When he returned to the house about 6 p.m., he felt a “horrible amount of heat” on their bedroom door.
He forced his way into the darkness.