Kathrine Louise (Foster) Strohm
Marriages
George Strohm - May 27, 1921
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise - April 21, 1983
Katherine Louise Foster Strohm, 89, died April 17 in Colby, Kan. She 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 and met her husband , George Strohm. They were married in Glenwood Springs May 27, 1921. In 1939, the bought what was once the County Farm and moved to Gypsum where they farmed and George ran a blacksmith shop. He died in October of 1952. After her husband passed, she worked for the Colorado Hotel in Glenwood Springs and for several years in Chandler, Ariz. Returned to Gypsum in 1966, entered the Oddfellows Home in Canyon City in August 1981. Became ill in December of 1982 and moved to Colby, kansas to be near her daughter.
Survivors; daughter, Patricia Nicholson, Garden City, Kan., grandson Larry Nicholson from Manhattan, Kan.; grandaughter, Donna Reichenberger, from Waterloo, Iowa. Funeral services held April 20 at Gypsum Lutheran Church. Officiating was Rev. Donald Simonton. Burial at Cedar Hills Cemetery.
