The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Art and Independence.... Probably the two words that would describe Kate the best. She coined a phrase... Joy Brilliance! What she would, throughout her life, use to describe the beauty and joy of seeing, absorbing, and creating art. Be it written in poetry, short story or simply an observation. Or in her myriad skills of creating art with her hands... fine, woven, mixed media, or even gardening and putting up, or simply mending a pair of coveralls.

And independence... she was true self thinker and doer. She always made her own way. But at the same time was a fierce friend to those lucky...