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Katherine (Kay) I. Strayer

Katherine (Kay) I. Strayer

Katherine (Kay) I. Strayer was born March 18, 1923 in Des Moines, Iowa to Frank and Lyndall Marturello. She graduated from Lincoln High School in 1941. Kay married Tom Strayer August 15, 1942. They were married 69 years when Tom passed away January 6, 2012. They moved from Des Moines, Iowa to Boise in 1957. She loved gardening and working in her yard. She loved planting vegetables and flowers until she was unable to do so.
Preceding her in death, husband Tom, January 6, 2012, her parents, a baby sister, Mary at 6 months, twin brothers who died at birth, brothers John and Joe Marturello, a baby grandson, and a great baby grandson, two special nieces, Connie Marturello and Jane Grim, and nephew Mike Baker.
Survivors are three daughters and one son, Nita Bernard, St. Paul, MN, Marie Bishop (Jack), Cordova, TN, Cindy Berry, Mountain Home, ID, and Thomas Strayer (Jackie), Bend, OR, one brother, Frank Marturello (Rachel), Boise, ID, two sisters, Maxine Tyler and Donna Baker, both of Des Moines, IA, eleven grandchildren and their spouses, twenty-one great-grandchildren, two great great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
A viewing will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 15, at Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel. Service will follow at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 16, at Alden-Waggoner, with a graveside committal at 1p.m. at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery.
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