Kathy Stone

Kathy Stone obituary, Springfield, MO

Kathy Stone

Kathy Stone Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Nov. 4, 2025.
Springfield - Kathy R Stone, 71, of Springfield, MO went to be with the Lord October 23, 2025 surrounded by her loving family.

Kathy was born May 12, 1954 in Wichita, KS to Allen Lee and Doris Jean (Burnett) Garrett. She was an active child, a good student and active in St Luke's Presbyterian church.

After high school she worked in public accounting and bookkeeping until she moved to Springfield, MO in 1989.

In Springfield she was a member of Southminster Presbyterian church where she met future husband, Mark D Stone. They were wed in 1991.

Kathy is survived by her husband, Mark of the home, sons and daughters-in-law, Kyle and Amanda Bradrick, Ryan and Kenya Bradrick, grandchildren Aiden, Reed and Amelia Bradrick of Springfield, and sister and brother-in-law Shirley and Ron Blanken of Andover, KS.

Kathy is known for her cheerful, positive attitude, her kindness to children and animals, her unpretentious nature and her absolute devotion to her family.

She loved dogs, daisies, flannel shirts and God, whose blessings she saw everywhere in her life.

Her family seek, with God's grace, to be living memorials to her memory.

So long Kate, Mom, Grandma, Sis.

Rest in peace.

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