Holly Barish-Sablich, a journalism major at Cal State Long Beach, died Sunday night after being struck by an SUV on Pacific Coast Highway near Anderson Street in Surfside. She turned 22 on Feb. 1.
Barish-Sablich lived with her mom, who she was very close to, in Huntington Beach, growing up as an only child.
After graduating from Huntington Beach High School in 2008, she went to Orange Coast Community College and then transferred to the journalism department at CSULB in fall 2011.
Barish-Sablich always wanted to be an actress and a model.
“She was definitely the model type,” Barish-Sablich’s friend Aaron Holz said.
Bryan Van Arsdale, Barish-Sablich’s ex-boyfriend, said she was very good at singing and had a strong knack for the arts.
“She was the artistic type,” he said.
Holz said that Barish-Sablich was adventurous and liked traveling, being outdoors and being with her friends.
She liked ceramics, The Beatles and the beach, Van Arsdale said.
Van Arsdale also said that, for people who didn’t know her, she was shy, but to the people who knew her, she was extremely funny.
Van Arsdale said Barish-Sablich was extremely loyal and trustworthy with her friends.
“You could tell her anything and she wouldn’t tell anyone,” Van Arsdale said.
He said she paid for school herself and was a hardworking student.
“She was stoked to be at [CSULB],”he said.
A public memorial for Barish-Sablich was held Wednesday at the Huntington Beach pier at 6:30 p.m.
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