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Kathryn Ethel (NEWKIRK) (GRAHAM) WATSON
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Date of Article:  Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:42:12 -0800
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From: Mark Merritt
Subject: [WING-L] Kathryn Ethel (NEWKIRK) (GRAHAM) WATSON
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:42:12 -0800
Kathryn Ethel (NEWKIRK) (GRAHAM) WATSON
9 February 1942 - 19 November 1999

It is with deep sadness and a profound sense of personal loss that I inform you of the passing this afternoon of Kathryn (NEWKIRK) (GRAHAM) WATSON.

Our Cousin Kathie was an eleventh generation descendant of Rev. John and Deborah (BACHILER) WING. For more than forty years she researched, examined, studied and cataloged the documents and literature associated with the WING family. A portion of that work now resides in the genealogy library in Salt Lake City. It was my honor and personal privilege to assist in the final edits of that work.

Very early in my own search, Kathie took an interest in my efforts and shared without hesitation the collected data for which she had worked so long and so well. If I have had any subsequent success in this quest, it is due to the guidance, advice, teaching and encouragement she gave me.

Kathie's humor... sometimes ribald... often sharp... always warm... will be missed in this household.

Kathie and her husband have been welcome guests in our home... She became good friends with our youngest daughter... That relationship was joyous to behold... I don't know for sure that Charlie ever knew Kathie's last name... She was, and is, and will always be simply, "Cousin Kathie."

While I cannot ever repay the debt I owe her, I can and will find a way to suitably provide for WING researchers what I regard as an appropriate memorial to her personally and to her massive effort. She entrusted with me the entire documented corpus of her four decades of work on the WING and related families. It will take some time to properly organize it for distribution or electronic publication... But that will be done. I shall keep you informed of its progress.

Rest Peacefully, Cousin Kathie... We shall miss you.

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Mailing List Archives, WING-L Archives, Nov. 1999
Notes
Mark Merritt said, "Kathie took an interest in my efforts and shared without hesitation the collected data for which she had worked so long and so well". In 1993 Kathryn did the same to me, she gave me approx. 80 files of her work, I, too, am trying to bring her data online. Here is Kathryn's data that I have online now
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Dale N. Wing



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