Catherine Virginia Kasmar

I will always remember Mrs. Kasmar for her helpful spirit and kind words to us through the years as we grew up as her next door neighbor. She was our second mother, when our mom couldn't pick us up at school if we had gotten sick or would share her home and dinners with us when our parents needed to be out. She would stay with our special needs sister and visit my mother when she got to the point that she couldn't go out. She will be missed but is now blessed with the promise of eternal...

Cathy (Mrs. Kasmar, for part of my life, as it was not proper to call adults by their first names when we were kids) was like a second mom. I grew up living next door and spent many days in her home playing with her kids or eating dinner when my parents needed her to help out. I can remember one of those meals where she asked if we liked "trees" and I said yes. Now in our house, "trees" were broccoli, but when dinner was served, she served asparagus. I didn't like asparagus, but I ate it...