March 15, 1935 – December 26, 2024

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

Kathy was a voracious bibliophile. Once her children were grown and out of the house, she would read a book every week. Mysteries, spy novels, thrillers, and action were her favorite, but she read everything from science fiction to biography and nature

First, Kathy was a daughter. She was born March 15, 1935, and spent her younger years in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated high school in Sylacauga, Tennessee where she met but didn’t date her future husband until college. Her husband would remark that she was “way too smart for me.

Kathy was a wife, she and Al married September 15, 1956, in Atlanta, Georgia. Her job working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was the investigation of whether viruses could cause cancer. A well accepted causation now for which we have vaccines, the notion was incredibly radical for the time.

Kathy was a mother; her first child was born four years after her wedding. Jerri Lynn was born four years later. Once Al graduated from Stanford, the family moved to Auburn, Alabama, where Al taught Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University. The couple’s plan was for Kathy to be a homemaker once the children were born. But her intelligence and curiosity would have made her a great researcher should she had continued after motherhood. Once both daughters were in school, Kathy dabbled in interior design and wrote two different newspaper columns for the small local newspaper.

Kathy was a grandmother. Her youngest daughter gave her two granddaughters, Kaytee and Annie on whom she doted. Jerri’s second child would awaken Cyndi’s biological clock, and she gave birth to a grandson, William. Kathy shared her love of reading and art with the grandchildren.

Kathy is preceded in death by her parents, younger daughter and husband. She is survived by her eldest daughter, Cyndi Bohannon; brother, Larry Stephens and three grandchildren, Kaytee and Annie Herandez and William Bohannon.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, January 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM at Jeter Memorial Funeral Home 311 North Friendswood Drive, Friendswood, Texas 77546 with Rev. Jerry Stark officiating. For more information call 281-992-7200.