Kathryn G. Wagoner

Kathryn G. Wagoner, a natural caregiver, died on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015. She was 81.

Mrs. Wagoner was born on July 27, 1934 in Westerlo, to the late Raymond and Mabel Somers Gossman. She was raised in Westerlo.

She went to Berne-Knox schools and graduated from Berne-Knox-Westerlo.

She loved to travel and go camping with her husband, the late Olin Wagoner, and she also enjoyed gardening, wrote her family in a tribute.

She was a volunteer at the meal site at the Hiawatha Grange in Dormansville; was a member of the Ladies’ Aid of the Westerlo Reformed Church; and was a member of the Senior Citizens in Medusa and Berne. 

“Kathryn was a caregiver all her life for family members and friends,” her family wrote. 

Mrs. Wagoner is survived by her son, Dean Wagoner, and his wife, Mariann; her grandchildren, Joyce Krygier, and her husband, Donald, and Dennis Westfall, and his wife, Jessie; and her great-grandchildren, Cailyn and Ethan Krygier, and Ella Westfall. 

A graveside service will be held on Sunday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. at the South Berne Cemetery, Church Road, South Berne. Arrangements are by the A.J. Cunningham Funeral Home in Greenville.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Westerlo Reformed Church, Post Office Box 70, Westerlo, NY 12193. 

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