Katrina Marion Gale

Katrina Marion Gale

AGE: 81 • formerly of Plainfield

Katrina Marion Gale, former Plainfield, N.J. resident, died in Webster, TX, August 10, 2017. She was 81 years old. Mrs. Gale, a career educator, was born in Plainfield in 1935, the daughter of long-time Plainfield residents, Marion and Homer Buckelmueller. Mrs. Gale graduated from the Hartridge School in 1953. In 1959 she married Charles Irving Gale, also of Plainfield, who predeceased her after 56 years of marriage. Mrs. Gale began teaching in Cedar Brook School, Plainfield, N.J., with a bachelor's degree from Wheelock College (1957). In 1961 she was awarded a Masters of Education from Rutgers University. The Gales moved to South Carolina and then Georgia where Mrs. Gale taught in several schools and earned an administration and supervision certificate from the University of Georgia. She then became principal of the James Riley Elementary School in Sandy Springs, Georgia.

Mrs. Gale is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Gretchen and Peter Mieszkowski, of Seabrook, TX, her sister-in-law, Barbara DeGar of Phoenix, AZ, a nephew, and several nieces, grandnieces and grandnephews. Mrs. Gale's ashes will join those of her husband Charles, September 3, 12:30 p.m. in a Service of Committal at the Memorial Garden of the Alpharetta Presbyterian Church, 180 Academy St., Alpharetta, GA 30009. Memorial gifts may be made for the garden.