Katherine Louise "Kate" (Foster) Strohm
Marriages
George Andre Strohm - May 28, 1921
in the Episcopal Church in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise - April 21, 1983
STROHM.
Katherine Louise Foster STROHM, 89, died April 17 in Colby, Kan.
Katherine was born on January 23, 1895, in Louisville, Kan. She was the daughter of James and Martha FOSTER.
She grew up in Kansas and graduated from Wamego High School. After teaching school in Wyoming for a year, she came to Gypsum in 1919, where she taught school and met her husband, George STROHM. He died in October of 1952.
They were married in the Episcopal Church in Glenwood Springs May 27, 1921.
She continued to teach several years while they farmed in the Gypsum Valley.
In 1939, they bought what was once the County Farm and moved to Gypsum where they continued to farm and George ran a blacksmith shop.
She was always active in community affairs and a long-time member of the Crater Rebekah Lodge and also the American Legion Auxiliary and the Eight and 40.
After her husband passed away, she again went back to work, first at the Colorado Hotel in Glenwood Springs and for several years in Chandler, Ariz.
In 1966, she retired to her home in Gypsum where she continued to be active raising large gardens and beautiful flowers.
She entered the Oddfellows Home in Canon City in August, 1981. Her last illness began in December of 1982, and she was moved to Lantern Park Manor in Colby, Kan. to be closer to her daughter.
Survivors: daughter, Patricia NICHOLSON, Garden City, Kan.; a grandson, Larry NICHOLSON, from Manhattan, Kan.; a granddaughter, Donna REICHENBERGER, from Waterloo, Iowa; another granddaughter, Anita NICHOLSON, of Manhattan, Kan.; four nephews and two nieces.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, April 20, at 2 p.m. a the Gypsum Lutheran Church. Officiating was Rev. Donald SIMONTON. Burial was at the Cedar Hills Cemetery, with graveside rights [sic] by the Rebekah Lodge. Farnum-Richardson Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.
