Kathryn was a 1937 graduate of Wellsville High School, and a
1940 graduate of Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, School of Nursing in
Buffalo. She had a long and full nursing career spanning employment at Dr.
Elmore G. Harkness' office in Wellsville, St. James Mercy Hospital in Hornell,
she was the Administrator of Our Friendly Home in Canisteo, a Nurse at Hamilton
College in Clinton, a New York State Public Health Nurse in Utica, and was a
Nursing Supervisor at Beulah Home, and Matilda Brown Home in Oakland, CA. She
retired in 1985, and she and Art traveled the lower 48 states visiting friends
and family until Art's death in 1991. She later married to Edward Moscardini,
who predeceased her in 2005.
She is survived by three children, Marilyn Khalaji, Irene
Genung, and Wayne (Cindy) Genung, seven grandchildren, two great-grandchildren,
and several nieces and nephews. In addition to parents and husbands, she was
predeceased by two children, Nancy Lee in 1953, Merton in 2004, and her brother
Berwyn J. Hauser of Wellsville in 2010.
A private graveside service is being planned at Valley Brook
Cemetery in Andover, NY, with Pastor Christian Mattison presiding. To leave
online condolences, please visit www.embserfuneralhome.com.
