I can count on two fingers the number of people I have know since grade school that I have kept up with over the years. One was Katherine. She was one of my cousin’s best friends and we found both of ourselves living in Norfolk for a time. That meant we had a standing Thursday night (when we were both in town) meeting for margaritas at Colley Cantina. It was our catch up time.
Katherine moved to California and then Atlanta and our catch up was once every few months via email. Pictures and announcements of marriages, children and pets and Christmas cards were exchanged and we also kept in touch through my cousin Monique. When we were lucky we would get to see each other about once a year in Roanoke while visiting family. Wife, mother, career woman, cook, interior designer and friend, I was always amazed at how she could keep so many balls in the air so gracefully and with such style and flair.
Wednesday afternoon Katherine was killed in a car accident in Atlanta.
It is always hard when you lose a friend but it is especially hard when they are young and it is so sudden and unexpected. She leaves behind a grieving husband, two boys (1 1/2 and 4), and more friends then we could ever count. I am praying and thinking of them all right now.
I know Katherine is in a better place right now cooking up something yummy all the while looking beautiful.
Katherine and her boys Jackson and Adam, Monique and Sasha and Ellie and I last fall
You girls made such beautiful bride and bridesmaids at Monique’s wedding. Lifelong friends. Most of us will be able to count on the fingers of one hand the number of lifelong friends we have had. The kind of friends you can not see for months on end, but pick up right where you left off when you see each other again. The joyful sense we will all have through the tears of this tragedy is that life doesn’t end here, and lifelong friends will find each other again in another life. Kathryn has slipped the mortal bonds of this Earth and rests in the arms of angels.
I am so sorry for your loss. You are held in my thoughts and prayers in this time of sadness. Blessings to all of your friends and family who you know that are grieving as well. I love you,mj
What a terrible loss, thoughts and prayers for all who knew her. My heart breaks for her husband & children. God Bless…