Beach Cities Passings 2023
Casey found his voice, shared it for the disabled Casey Rohrer “If I could write everything I am thinking, my words would reach to the sky,” Casey Rohrer said in a 2016 documentary about a play he had written. At the time, his play, “Once Upon a Road Trip,” was in rehearsals with the Family Theater production company at the Hermosa Beach Second Story Theater. “The play is about how it feels when you don’t have a voice,” Rohrer says in the video. He meant that literally. Rohrer was born with Cerebral Palsy. The disease deprives its victims of muscle control, with the notable exception of the eyes. In 2010 a bench in Manhattan Beach’s Polliwog Park was dedicated to his grandmother, Beverly Rohrer, for her work on behalf of disabled students. Beverly Rohrer was the superintendent of Manhattan Beach Schools, and often took her grandson to the park. After the dedication Roherer became an activist for people with disabilities. In 2016, he helped his mother Beth cut the ribbon during the opening of South Park in Hermosa Beach. He and his mother were involved in designing the play areas to be accessible to the disabled. “All kids can play together now,” he said at the ribbon cutting…
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