Kathryn Bax

Kathryn Ann Bax (Kathy), a brilliant, strong, kind, and loving person, left us Friday February 7, 2025. Born November 16, 1952, in Springfield Illinois. She lived her life by exploring, learning, and deeply loving her family and friends.

Kathy and her husband Danny, her best friend for life, fell madly in love with each other at first sight in high school on New Years Eve 1969. They married February 12, 1971, and remained madly in love and best friends. Adoring and loyal to each other and their two daughters, they shared an incredibly rare, close, tender and deeply loving marriage, the likes of which few people have ever experienced for over 55 years. Her brilliance, deep love, and her warmth to everyone was ever visible to everyone who met her. She embraced life, her ancestral cultural heritage and tradition. She traveled the world with Danny and were as close as two people in love can be. She was most proud of her two daughters, who each possess the same true love and her finest qualities. She loved gardening, volunteered at gardens, and created beautiful gardens in her back yard. She was a shining example to all who got to know her.

Kathy's mission was always to serve. She always gave and never took. She exemplified kindness. Her passion for family and curiosity of learning and the world led her to night college after marriage at Washington University in St. Louis learning computers. She later received an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and for fun achieved a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Western Connecticut State University. She always pursued education and continued learning. She had a 17-year high-power executive career at IBM. She was the first women serving in any of her executive roles, breaking boundaries and forging a path for women in careers. She was a Series 7 investment advisor, started her own Family Office financial services business, and later founded and operated multiple decades long technology businesses with her husband. Kathy traveled the world, embraced and celebrated new customs and traditions. She loved the outdoors, hiked the Appalachian Trail and became a Nevada Site Steward volunteer to enjoy and help protect historic sites. Her passion, enjoyment and pride to be a Nevada Site Steward, recruiting and assisting other site stewards, and her desire to assist each park across the US burned in her heart every day, and quoted saying those were the best years of her life. Her last words were "I am happy".

Kathy Bax is the daughter of Gwen and Leo Ferrette. She is survived by her loving husband Daniel James Bax, and two daughters Brandy June Bax married to Jason Potter, and Brei Jacqueline Bax married to Mathew Makoid and step grandkids Cameron and Avery Makoid; sister to Denise Smith, married to Ron Smith, and many adoring friends.

A graveside ceremony will be held at Memorial Gardens, 7251 W. Lone Mountain Road, Las Vegas, NV 89130, Saturday February 22nd, at 2PM, followed by a celebration of Kathy's life in Kathy's backyard Garden at 6402 Inwood Park Ct. from 3pm to 7pm. Condolences and live plants and flowers to be planted in Kathy's Garden can be sent to the same address. In lieu of flowers, Kathy dearly loved Site Stewarding and it would most honor her if your donations were sent to Nevadans for Cultural Preservation c/o Kathy's "Rockstar" Fund to help recruit new Site Stewards and protect Nevada's cultural sites https://www.nvfcp.org/kathys_rockstar_fund You may leave a voice mail message for her family at 702-718-1406. You can upload photos and remembrances of Kathy with this link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CHcBhiootF9xo_Y_O2k1P4INZlBbxImj?usp=sharing