Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie) Jul 2013

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Alice
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 12:04 PM

Morgan, if you are still reading this thread, I want to tell you how sorry I am that your grandmother has passed. I know she was a soft, safe, wonderful grandmother for you. I remember in the 1990's when she joined mudcat and she was so excited to find this site with all the lyrics and history of folk music. I remember how excited, happy, and in love with you she was when you were born. My thoughts are with you and your family. Take care.

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Micca
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 12:00 PM

I am speechless and bereft, I only spoke to her hours before she passed, My thoughts are with you Roger, Morgan and Rue, and Del and my dear friend Katie, I feel priveleged to know you all, I will need time to take this in, matbe more later

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:54 AM

Just as I was feeling better about my wife's condition I saw this. Kat was always friendly and kind to me. I can only express my best wishes and condolences to her family and all her many, many friends.
Charles Stenger.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:51 AM

Such sad news, and such a shock. We often corresponded about her book & my Greek ramblings. Big hugs to Roger and all the family.

RtS

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:48 AM

Oh Miss Kitty. We never had that last chat.
Rest easy, my friend.
Marigold

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: bfdk
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:44 AM

So sorry to hear this. Never met Kat IRL, but we chatted a bit from time to time and she helped me a lot with some genealogy questions regarding the USA. Such a lovely person, condolences to her family and friends.

Bente

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: voyager
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:37 AM

Many blessings to the family of katlaughing. On the Mudcat, she shared many great stories about her family's Western Life and made me feel welcome here in Colorado when we moved back in 2010.

voyager

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: artbrooks
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:31 AM

Oh. Words fail.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: GUEST,Cuilionn
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:31 AM

May the air and water caress her.
May the earth lovingly embrace her.
May the fire of her loving, creative spirit leap ever higher,
    delighting us with its dance,
    warming us with its light,
    singing to us, carrying the song
    of her dear, great heart.

Blessed Be.

--Cuilionn

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: GUEST,maryrrf
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:30 AM

I'm so sorry to hear this. I never met her in person, but she was someone who always tried to hold Mudcat together as a community. RIP Katlaughing.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:28 AM

Shocked and saddened to hear the news, the world is a little dimmer.

LTS

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: GUEST,highlandman at work
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:26 AM

So sorry to hear this.
Blessings on all her family and close friends.
She certainly leaves a gap here.
-Glenn

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Megan L
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:18 AM

Morgan, Rue , Roj and any other family.

My heart weeps for your pain for you must travel on without her.
My spirit sings for she is now free to ride the breeze and dance through the autumn leaves of the trees she wrote about.

I will miss her and am honoured to have had her company and encouragement on my walk. The book Morgan set a puzzle for sits on my bedside cabinet and when nights are long I often read a page or two to settle into sleep.

Take good care of each other and be kind to yourself.

much love
Meg

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:16 AM

11:15 was me.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:15 AM

So very sorry to hear this; she was as special to us as anyone "here" could be. We had made a bit of "outside" connection as well, and I considered her a friend that I really hoped to meet in person some day.
                Dean in Michigan

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:11 AM

I just found out about this from a post Amos made in the BS section. Sad news for those of us who knew Kat! One knows perfectly well that it'll happen to all of us at some point, but it's a shock when it happens to a longtime friend. I never met Kat face-to-face, have only known her from Mudcat chat, but will miss her voice here.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:10 AM

Oh, no.

Morgan, thank you. She will always be so proud of you.

I'm sitting here in tears for a friend I never met and yet whose heart we all know so well.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: ranger1
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:10 AM

Oh, no. I had always hoped to meet her in person, as she has been such a good friend to me over the years. Morgan, she loved you very much, and she will always be in your heart, no matter what. Rog and Rue, my condolences to the two of you, as well.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: ClaireBear
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:07 AM

Please give Morgan a hug for Claire and Martin, who got to meet him -- and Kat -- just once, but became fast friends over lunch.

Sweet, wonderful, memorable, exceptional people, the pair of you -- and I will miss Kat more than I can say.

Claire

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:05 AM

I'm very sorry to hear this. Kat was one of the moving spirits here on Mudcat, and her touch will be much missed. My sympathies to Roger, Rue and Morgan and all the family.

Matthew

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 11:01 AM

Thanks for letting us know Morgan and Rue.
She held onto her kindness when others had forgotten to try. We all know how much she loved Morgan, You're both in my thoughts, as is Roger and the rest of her family.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 10:56 AM

God, what a shock. I am so sorry.

A

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 10:50 AM

This is terribly upsetting news.. So sad. That's really choked me up.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: GUEST,Rue
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 10:39 AM

And I'm sorry to have to let you all know in what might seem such an impersonal way. But I don't know how to contact those of you that were closes to her by phone.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: meself
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 10:36 AM

This is very sad. Kat was one of the consistently decent people on here, and a great contributor. We'll miss her.

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 10:33 AM

Morgan wanted to make sure you all knew since she had shared with him all of her wonderful friends on the Mudcat. He knows how important you all have been to her in life.

I'll check the post for then next couple of days. In case anyone wants to know more.

Thank you for being there for my mom during her many years with you all. I know you support and friendship meant the world to her.

Thank you all,
Kat's daughter - Rue

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 10:30 AM

Sniff...

Kat was the cream of the crop here and always willing to help anyone who needed it... I woman of great wisdom, grace and humility...

Luvyakat...

B:~(

Subject: RE: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: Deckman
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 10:28 AM

OH NO ... tell me it isn't true!

Subject: Obit: For Katlaughing (aka: Kat / Latie)
From: GUEST,Her Grandson Morgan
Date: 22 Jul 13 - 10:22 AM

hi it is morgan i wanted to tell you that kat has died last night at 4.00 i gist wonted to let you know