Kristin Pires

Beloved mom, wife, sister, aunt.

Sept. 16, 2023 – Kristin Danielle Pires was born February 6, 1986, in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in North Plains, Oregon. She loved horses, trained horses, and rescued horses in need of homes. She showed horses in 4H, OHSET, Open and Breed shows in her teens, often winning Champion and Blues. She had her first daughter in 2005 and moved to Sarasota, Florida, where she was a Girl Scout leader, proud dance mom and continued working with horses. She had her second daughter in 2018. Kristin earned her LPN license in the fall of 2017 and worked as a school nurse until moving to Surf City, North Carolina, where her husband served in the Coast Guard at Camp Lejeune. She made one of her dreams come true, adopting a retired racing thoroughbred, “Awsome Faith” (Duke) in 2022, and was able to see her youngest daughter participate in her first equestrian competitions. She loved her family, friends and animals fiercely and lived to bring us all together. Kristin battled severe pain from the age of 15, with an official diagnosis of synovial sarcoma in 2013, and was inspirational in her strength and courage throughout many surgeries and treatments.

She is dearly missed by all who knew her.