Kathy passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 4, with her husband, Tim, holding her hand.

Born April 5, 1940, in St. Louis, Missouri, she spent her youth in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Graduating from Southeast Missouri State University with a degree in teaching, she spent the next few years teaching in Michigan. With an interest in travel, she accepted a position in Schweinfurt, Germany, on a military base teaching army dependents. She enjoyed weekends sightseeing around Europe with other teachers.

It was there that she met a young army lieutenant named Tim, whom she married three years later upon his return from Vietnam. The next years were spent teaching in Tacoma, Washington, while Tim was stationed at Fort Lewis. During that time on weekends, she captained Tim’s fishing boat while he ran the gea

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