Stephanie Cecilia Coleman passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 29^th at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, California after a long illness.

Stephanie was born in Manchester, England to Denis and Mary Coleman on May 3, 1957.

The family moved to Montreal, Canada, and later to Stamford, Connecticut.

Stephanie is survived by her daughters Laura Lunde of San Francisco, California and Brooke Kasczynski of Lafayette, Colorado; six grandchildren; her mother, Mary Coleman of Centerville, Massachusetts; her sisters Philippa Goodman of Poughkeepsie, New York, Susan Coleman of Oakland, CA, Helen Coleman of Carson City, and her brother Robert Coleman of Dennis Port, Massachusetts. She also leaves behind her companion and confidante, Rande Jenus of Reston, Virginia.

Stephanie attended the University of Connecticut, where she completed her undergraduate degree and Masters Degree in Business Administration. She began her career as an appraiser with Bank of America in Oakland, California and then as an independent appraiser.

She later joined the Appraisal Institute as Director of Screening, where she developed and taught training courses, wrote textbooks, and served on key national committees.

She received many awards, including the 2019 Bert L. Thornton Presidents Award, the 2021 Dr. William N Kinnard, Jr. Award, and the 2023 J. Scott Robinson Lifetime Achievement Award.

Throughout her life, Stephanie was an avid distance runner and a swimmer, and she especially loved hiking, backpacking, and cross-country skate-skiing in the Sierras. She was known by everyone for her kind, gracious spirit, her wry sense of humor, and her indefatigable energy.

Stephanie was a member of the Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community, meditating and studying Buddhism with The Middle Way Sangha in Carson City. She will be remembered there for her dedication, warmth, wisdom, openness, courage and beautiful smile.

Donations can be sent to Nevada Nordic at nevadanordic.com, which maintains skate skiing trails off Mount Rose Highway, the Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community at dharmazephyr.com, or Muscle Powered at Musclepowered.com, (responsible for hiking and biking trails maintenance) in the Carson City area.

A gathering for Stephanie will be held in the spring in Carson City, Nevada.