On Monday, September 8, 2025, Maggie Sasha Rose, known to her childhood friends as Kathy Reilly Jr, passed away while under the care of Rosewood Assisted Living Memory Care Unit. She was born on September 22, 1952 in Los Angeles, California to Kathleen Reilly, and sister, Patricia Lynn Reilly. At the age of three, she moved to New Jersey with her mother and sister, and lived in an orphanage for five years until, with the help of Calvary Gospel Church in Newark, New Jersey, she and her sister were reunited with their mother. The three of them attended the church, where Pastor Grover Wilcox and his wife, Helen, became surrogate family, and introduced her to Jesus and the good news of the Gospel. Kathy became active as a teenager, and developed leadership skills through her participation in the church's youth group, The Conquerors Club, which had upwards of 100 attendees, as well as the group's evangelistic arms, The Gospel Team, and Open Air Campaigners, making lifelong friends with those including , Rodney Alexander, Rodney Ailes, Randy and Joan Nabors, Debbie Nabors Blackman, Lynn Brown, Melinda Contrares, the late Roger Curry, the late Elward Ellis, Myra Franklin (Curry) Cuff, the late Stephen Davis, Denise Quarles Davis, Richie Golden, Travis Jones , Sarah Wilcox (Johnson), Helen Wilcox (Slappy) Johnson (along with their three older and younger siblings), Glenda Pratt, Wayne Slappy, Rochelle Gilyard Pleasant, William Pleasant, Margaret Pleasant Soaries, Oliver Trimiew, Carlton Woodward, and Cynthia Robinson Young. Her adult mentors at the church were Alex and Carole Lowe, the late Mr. and Mrs. Parnes, the late Mr. And Mrs. Parker, Stephen and Jean Liang, and Mrs. Dubois, Rhonda Davis, the late Mrs. Johnson, the late Mrs. Brown, the late Gloria Nabors, the late Sarah Brown, and the late Mary Krugelstein who participated in the youth group by driving them to various locations in the city and beyond. She attended Arts High School, an Arts Magnet school, where she "majored" in art- a talent she never abandoned, creating cards featuring her paintings. Many of her friends from the church also went there, including Darryl Trimiew, Deborah DeNault Coppolo and Vergaline Hill Stansberry. In their junior year, Kathy and Cynthia became best friends. Many happy summers were spent at Camp Peniel in Lake Luzerne, New York with her friends from Calvary Gospel Church, as well as friends from the Willow Grove youth group--friends that included Judie Alessi O'Malley, Linda Person, the Mostroms, Menges, Lovelaces, Silburns, and Whitnahs, as well as other campers from other places like, for example, the late James Coad. She was either at Peniel as a camper, or, as in the summer of 1970, a kitchen worker with Mrs. Silburn, where she and Cynthia made sure that no desserts went to waste! After graduating from Barrington College, she married Chuck Edinger a fellow student at Barrington in the summer of 1975; that marriage ended in divorce. Kathy then entered the business world, moving to Vermont, and became a successful consultant at Avalon Strategic Business Development and Marketing employing the leadership skills she learned in high school under Pastor Wilcox. She was involved in another short marriage that resulted in divorce, and then Kathy changed her name to Maggie Sasha Rose. She met and married Michael Smith, a psychologist, and, after a short time in California, moved to Longmont, Colorado. During a massage while on her honeymoon, she suffered irreparable spinal damage by an incompetent masseuse. And this opened the door to a variety of health problems, including a stroke. Upon divorcing Michael, Maggie made the decision to move back to live among her high school friends in Chattanooga, Tennessee around 2011. Ever resourceful, she was able to buy a house and begin a new career, starting Wild Irish Rose Landscaping. Maggie joined New City Fellowship, and joined a small group in St. Elmo, led by David and Arline Cadwell, rekindling old friendships while making new ones with many in the church-the Moores, DeWaters, and Lewises. Her physical health continued to decline, and eventually affected her memory, which resulted in spending her last days in Memory Care, with her needs being overseen by Oliver and Anna Trimiew. If Maggie can be remembered for anything, one of her main qualities is that she was passionate, and deeply cared about justice. In her college years, she took every opportunity to teach others about racism and the need for change. Even though she went through many trials in life, she kept her sense of humor, that would sometimes display itself in her trademark twinkle in her eyes, even as she unknowing neared the end of her earthly life. She is survived by her sister, Patricia Lynn Reilly, along with family she was always searching for.