Kathleen Kildee Minard, 95, passed away Sept. 6, 2016 at Tryon Estates in Columbus, N.C.

Kathleen was born in Ames, Iowa to Henry and Ruth Sweney Kildee. She married Fredrick Minard in 1944, and after living in Lake Bluff, Ill. for many years, they retired to the Tryon area in 1983.

Kay was a graduate of the University of Iowa, where she was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.  After graduation, she taught English at Iowa State University and at Lake Forest High School in Lake Forest, Ill. Prior to moving to the Tryon area, she worked as an educational therapist with the Veterans Administration Hospital in North Chicago, Ill.

In Tryon, she was a member of A.A.U.W. and had served as president of the board of directors for the Lanier Library.

Kay is survived by her daughter Sarah Gordy and her husband Tom of Burnet, Texas, and by her son, John and his wife Maureen and their children Liz, Laura, and Charlie of Milwaukee, Wisc.

Memorials may be made to Tryon Presbyterian Church, 430 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, NC 28782.

An online guest register is available at www.mcfarlandfuneralchapel.com

McFarland Funeral Chapel

Tryon, N.C.