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Kathryn Ann Kleine Roberts
Birth          27 Nov 1928, Gary, Lake County, Indiana, USA
Death          25 Jul 2021 (aged 92), Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
Burial         Jefferson Memorial Gardens South, Hoover, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
Memorial ID    229996206

Kathryn Ann Kleine Roberts
November 27, 1928-July 25, 2021

Kathryn (aka, Kathy, Grandma, Gma, Grema, and Kathryn Ann when she was bad), age 92 was called to Glory this past Sunday after complications due to a fall. Kathryn started life in Gary Indiana at the ripe age of zero. Her father, who worked in the steel industry, transferred to Birmingham in 1938. She ended up marrying another guy who was also in the steel industry, albeit making pipe. His name was Barnett Emerald Roberts, who preceded her in death. Also preceded in death by her parents, Harold K. Kleine and Edna S. Adams and her sister, Dorothy Michael.

Her early career started as a soda jerk at the drug store in downtown Birmingham and ended up working in school administration at Berry High School. After retirement, she plowed her efforts into arts and crafts with her husband Bob and toured all over Alabama's fine craft shows. In her spare time, she volunteered as a "Pink Lady" giving over a thousand hours at Saint Vincent's hospital where her admin skills were put to great use. An avid collector of "all things swan", she also partook of sewing many a quilt.

Kathy, as she was known by her friends and family, was always referred to as sweet, funny, and a bit sassy. (maybe it runs in the family-editor) Loved by everyone, she could liven up a room with endless old sayings and could be heard cackling down the hall. She loved to wake you up with light pinches while saying things like "ants, roaches, bugs..."

Survived by a whole host of people including her sister Coralie Jo Hunter. She had four kids, Diann (Larry) Felix, Charles (Barbara) Roberts, Jan (Fred) Brugge and Don (Marlies) Roberts and more grandkids than you could shake a stick at - totaling 9 - Rust, Michael, David, Allison, Matt, Daniel, Stephen, Alexandra and Jessica. She even had a passel of great-grandkids - Eve, Joan, Xander, Ruby, Dessa, Camden, Cade and two on the way to be named at a later date.

A lifelong Church member, she was most recently a member of Saint John's Lutheran Church in Lexington, Kentucky, where funeral services will be held Friday, July 30, 2021, at 6:30 pm. Visitation will precede starting at 5:00 pm. Interment will be in Birmingham, Alabama at Currie-Jefferson Memorial Gardens South on Tuesday, August 3, at 11:00 am with visitation preceding and 10:00 am.

This information and the pictures below were obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229996206/kathryn-ann-roberts. The picture above was obtained from the 1946 HHS Memories yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1946Images/.

INFORMATION FROM FAMILY SEARCH WEBSITE:

Brief Life History of Kathryn Ann

When Kathryn Ann Kleine was born on 27 November 1928, in Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States, her father, Harold Kenneth Kleine, was 26 and her mother, Edna Wilhemina Schlobohm, was 23. She married Barnett Emerald Roberts on 1 May 1948, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States. She lived in Election Precinct 9, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. She died on 25 July 2021, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Jefferson Smalls Cemetery, Demopolis, Marengo, Alabama, United States.

This information was obtained from: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/GL76-KJ4.