Kathryn P. (Dorr) WADE

DORR, WADE, LAAVEG, MENNENGA, JAMES, MARPLE, HILL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/5/2016 at 18:12:08

February 10, 1944 ---- January 1, 2016

Kathryn P. (Dorr) Wade, 71, of Mason City, IA., passed away at the Mercy Medical Center of North Iowa on January 1, 2016. Funeral services for Kathryn P. Wade will be held at 1:30 P.M. Wednesday January 6, 2016 at the Dugger Funeral Home, 111 Luick’s Lane South in Belmond. Rob Dugger will serve as the Celebrant. Visitation for Kathryn P. Wade will be held at the Dugger Funeral Home on Wednesday starting at 11:30 A.M. and be open until the service time.

Kathryn was the first child born to Maxine and Paul Dorr, on February 10, 1944, in Belmond, IA. Kathryn grew up in Belmond, where she attended and graduated from Belmond High School. She attended Iowa State University, moved to Des Moines, where she worked. She moved to Jacksonville, Fl, where she met the love of her life, Robert Wade. She was married to Robert on July 6, 1973, in Salt Springs, Fl. They lived in a number of places in Florida, enjoying careers in bar ownership, banking, and crafting. In 1991 the couple moved back to Belmond, where she started Kathi’s Workshop on Main Street. Kathryn was an incredibly skilled artist, with painting, quilting, sewing teddy bears and handbags, beading, porcelain doll making and costume design.

Kathryn is survived by 2 sisters; Rita (Sterling) Laaveg of Scottsdale, AZ. and Pat Mennenga of Mason City, IA, and a step-daughter Debbie (Steve) James of Citra, Fl. Brian Wade of California; Roger of Jacksonville, Florida, and Cara (Tom) Marple of Virginia, sixteen grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by husband, Robert Wade, parents Paul and Maxine Dorr, her brother, Kevin and wife, Kathy Dorr, and step-daughter Lisa Hill.

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