Mother was the guiding light for all eleven of Us. Each day each hour each minute we were showered with love and devotion as if we were an only child. Each morning Mother was up at the first sight of a new day preparing each of us with a happy optimistic face so that we would feel special during the crowded day. No matter how old or worn the shoes each of us had our shined pair in that long row. That treadle sewing machine never missed a stitch, each new shirt made us stand tall and proud.
We remember that big green box that stood beside that old kitchen stove-each Thursday would appear those loaves of bread and two over sized pans of cinnamon rolls. Oh how many times we tried to duplicate that flavor.
We remember those lean times mother never seemed to eat-she always said that each bite was filled with love when a little came from each of our plates.
No matter what the function mothers proud face was in the front row.
Mother loved people and people loved her evidence with her speeding home from work or shopping each day- that right hand on the steering wheel with her left arm out the window waving answering all those hello Goldie's.
But now the evening sun has set for her and she is gone, but not really because each day each our each minute we shower mom with our love and devotion one day because of her christian ways we will drop in on her forever in heaven.
September 8, 1986
The above tribute was written and read by her son William (Bill)L. Kagy at her funeral.
Goldie was my grandmother and Confidant. She was full of wisdom and had a infectious nature about her.
My fondest memories was all the countless hours that my grandmother my mom and I would always stay up late talking until 2am sharing family stories, and then I would go to sleep laying on fresh cotton sheets that smelled so clean because they were hung dry outside in the sun. I will never forget the windows being open and the cool breeze that would feel like heaven and always hearing the cows bellowing out side that would calm me to sleep.
It was always like clock work waking up at 5am before the sun came up and smell the bacon cooking.Oh my I miss that! I will never forget the early morning hours spending time setting at the breakfast table eating her home made biscuits and strawberry jam and sharing family history and photos again.
I also miss having her give me a salt shaker and say go out in the garden and pick lunch which was a beefsteak tomato and a red sweet onion with fresh cucumbers.
She would always have her homemade persimmon cookies in the freezer ready for me to eat "Frozen" with fresh coffee.
Those are the enduring moments that no money can ever replace!! I feel blessed to have such loving memories one in which I search for to this day.
She married at 15 and all that she learned about running a household was taught by her husband. She was truly one who learned from the school of hard knocks. She learned fast for her own family grew so fast. Life was truly difficult for her and her husband financially but she always said that if you have family what more would one want. She "LOVED" her children more than life itself. I will never forget when she shared with me that she always waited to eat until all her children ate and even watched them eat seconds and she would eat their scraps. She truly knew how to survive against all odds.She could open the refrigerator and make an entire meal out of bits and pieces of leftovers for food was not wasted in her home.
The one memory about my grandmother was that she loved to drive fast. She could maneuver a car with ease at any speed. All the family would tell her that the song "The little old lady from Pasadena" By the "Beach Boys" were written about her. When she and I would go shopping She would lean over while she was driving and say "Don't tell any one how fast we were driving" and then giggle.
She lost the love of her life (William Kagy) in 1954. She watched her husband go in for a simple surgery and was devastated to learn of his passing while on the operating table. She tried the best she could to cope. She found solitude by walking over to graveyard late at night and would talk to her long departed husbands grave. They were very close. She worked by cleaning homes for wealthy families and then started working at the Singer Factory in Visalia California. She was an honest and extremely hardworking person. I admired her tenacity to survive. She choose to be a the best mother and grandmother regardless of her circumstances.
Grandma was very intuitive with those she loved. She demonstrated it all the time. I will never forget how she would be talking and all of a sudden she would stop and say "I need to call ?" and sure enough it was a signal to contact them. It was so amazing to watch.
She told me that her mother was an angry woman who taught her "Nothing". Her mother would punish her and her sister's by making them go out and bring in a cutting off a rose bush and she would whip them with it. She did not even like to mention her mothers name or the abuse. I am so great full that she found a peaceful and loving Husband and Father for he taught her that she could change and change she did.
She stated that she chose to break that cycle of anger and abuse. One of her greatest quotes,was "What do you chose to be remembered by Anger or Love"? Love is what she chose and she demonstrated that by showing how much she loved her children daily. I am so grateful that she decided to break the cycle of anger.
She was the one who taught me how to Bake Bread, and Cook from scratch. She also taught me how to Season Cast Iron skillets, Garden, Quilt and make homemade Jam.
She was the most forgiving person and always told me that life is something that you can not run from, but to stand there and hit it head on.
She was the true Matriarch of this Kagy family. God I miss you grandma but your example lives on in me daily especially pertaining to my children.
She passed from the complications of Osteoporosis and suffered latter in her life but never complained.
Thank you grandma for choosing to love us all so much and demonstrating how to love us as well and breaking that cycle of anger. God blessed us with your presence and instruction and I thank him for having you in our lives.
I will never forget you grandma and I miss you so much.I will love you forever.
We remember that big green box that stood beside that old kitchen stove-each Thursday would appear those loaves of bread and two over sized pans of cinnamon rolls. Oh how many times we tried to duplicate that flavor.
We remember those lean times mother never seemed to eat-she always said that each bite was filled with love when a little came from each of our plates.
No matter what the function mothers proud face was in the front row.
Mother loved people and people loved her evidence with her speeding home from work or shopping each day- that right hand on the steering wheel with her left arm out the window waving answering all those hello Goldie's.
But now the evening sun has set for her and she is gone, but not really because each day each our each minute we shower mom with our love and devotion one day because of her christian ways we will drop in on her forever in heaven.
September 8, 1986
The above tribute was written and read by her son William (Bill)L. Kagy at her funeral.
Goldie was my grandmother and Confidant. She was full of wisdom and had a infectious nature about her.
My fondest memories was all the countless hours that my grandmother my mom and I would always stay up late talking until 2am sharing family stories, and then I would go to sleep laying on fresh cotton sheets that smelled so clean because they were hung dry outside in the sun. I will never forget the windows being open and the cool breeze that would feel like heaven and always hearing the cows bellowing out side that would calm me to sleep.
It was always like clock work waking up at 5am before the sun came up and smell the bacon cooking.Oh my I miss that! I will never forget the early morning hours spending time setting at the breakfast table eating her home made biscuits and strawberry jam and sharing family history and photos again.
I also miss having her give me a salt shaker and say go out in the garden and pick lunch which was a beefsteak tomato and a red sweet onion with fresh cucumbers.
She would always have her homemade persimmon cookies in the freezer ready for me to eat "Frozen" with fresh coffee.
Those are the enduring moments that no money can ever replace!! I feel blessed to have such loving memories one in which I search for to this day.
She married at 15 and all that she learned about running a household was taught by her husband. She was truly one who learned from the school of hard knocks. She learned fast for her own family grew so fast. Life was truly difficult for her and her husband financially but she always said that if you have family what more would one want. She "LOVED" her children more than life itself. I will never forget when she shared with me that she always waited to eat until all her children ate and even watched them eat seconds and she would eat their scraps. She truly knew how to survive against all odds.She could open the refrigerator and make an entire meal out of bits and pieces of leftovers for food was not wasted in her home.
The one memory about my grandmother was that she loved to drive fast. She could maneuver a car with ease at any speed. All the family would tell her that the song "The little old lady from Pasadena" By the "Beach Boys" were written about her. When she and I would go shopping She would lean over while she was driving and say "Don't tell any one how fast we were driving" and then giggle.
She lost the love of her life (William Kagy) in 1954. She watched her husband go in for a simple surgery and was devastated to learn of his passing while on the operating table. She tried the best she could to cope. She found solitude by walking over to graveyard late at night and would talk to her long departed husbands grave. They were very close. She worked by cleaning homes for wealthy families and then started working at the Singer Factory in Visalia California. She was an honest and extremely hardworking person. I admired her tenacity to survive. She choose to be a the best mother and grandmother regardless of her circumstances.
Grandma was very intuitive with those she loved. She demonstrated it all the time. I will never forget how she would be talking and all of a sudden she would stop and say "I need to call ?" and sure enough it was a signal to contact them. It was so amazing to watch.
She told me that her mother was an angry woman who taught her "Nothing". Her mother would punish her and her sister's by making them go out and bring in a cutting off a rose bush and she would whip them with it. She did not even like to mention her mothers name or the abuse. I am so great full that she found a peaceful and loving Husband and Father for he taught her that she could change and change she did.
She stated that she chose to break that cycle of anger and abuse. One of her greatest quotes,was "What do you chose to be remembered by Anger or Love"? Love is what she chose and she demonstrated that by showing how much she loved her children daily. I am so grateful that she decided to break the cycle of anger.
She was the one who taught me how to Bake Bread, and Cook from scratch. She also taught me how to Season Cast Iron skillets, Garden, Quilt and make homemade Jam.
She was the most forgiving person and always told me that life is something that you can not run from, but to stand there and hit it head on.
She was the true Matriarch of this Kagy family. God I miss you grandma but your example lives on in me daily especially pertaining to my children.
She passed from the complications of Osteoporosis and suffered latter in her life but never complained.
Thank you grandma for choosing to love us all so much and demonstrating how to love us as well and breaking that cycle of anger. God blessed us with your presence and instruction and I thank him for having you in our lives.
I will never forget you grandma and I miss you so much.I will love you forever.
Mother was the guiding light for all eleven of Us. Each day each hour each minute we were showered with love and devotion as if we were an only child. Each morning Mother was up at the first sight of a new day preparing each of us with a happy optimistic face so that we would feel special during the crowded day. No matter how old or worn the shoes each of us had our shined pair in that long row. That treadle sewing machine never missed a stitch, each new shirt made us stand tall and proud.
We remember that big green box that stood beside that old kitchen stove-each Thursday would appear those loaves of bread and two over sized pans of cinnamon rolls. Oh how many times we tried to duplicate that flavor.
We remember those lean times mother never seemed to eat-she always said that each bite was filled with love when a little came from each of our plates.
No matter what the function mothers proud face was in the front row.
Mother loved people and people loved her evidence with her speeding home from work or shopping each day- that right hand on the steering wheel with her left arm out the window waving answering all those hello Goldie's.
But now the evening sun has set for her and she is gone, but not really because each day each our each minute we shower mom with our love and devotion one day because of her christian ways we will drop in on her forever in heaven.
September 8, 1986
The above tribute was written and read by her son William (Bill)L. Kagy at her funeral.
Goldie was my grandmother and Confidant. She was full of wisdom and had a infectious nature about her.
My fondest memories was all the countless hours that my grandmother my mom and I would always stay up late talking until 2am sharing family stories, and then I would go to sleep laying on fresh cotton sheets that smelled so clean because they were hung dry outside in the sun. I will never forget the windows being open and the cool breeze that would feel like heaven and always hearing the cows bellowing out side that would calm me to sleep.
It was always like clock work waking up at 5am before the sun came up and smell the bacon cooking.Oh my I miss that! I will never forget the early morning hours spending time setting at the breakfast table eating her home made biscuits and strawberry jam and sharing family history and photos again.
I also miss having her give me a salt shaker and say go out in the garden and pick lunch which was a beefsteak tomato and a red sweet onion with fresh cucumbers.
She would always have her homemade persimmon cookies in the freezer ready for me to eat "Frozen" with fresh coffee.
Those are the enduring moments that no money can ever replace!! I feel blessed to have such loving memories one in which I search for to this day.
She married at 15 and all that she learned about running a household was taught by her husband. She was truly one who learned from the school of hard knocks. She learned fast for her own family grew so fast. Life was truly difficult for her and her husband financially but she always said that if you have family what more would one want. She "LOVED" her children more than life itself. I will never forget when she shared with me that she always waited to eat until all her children ate and even watched them eat seconds and she would eat their scraps. She truly knew how to survive against all odds.She could open the refrigerator and make an entire meal out of bits and pieces of leftovers for food was not wasted in her home.
The one memory about my grandmother was that she loved to drive fast. She could maneuver a car with ease at any speed. All the family would tell her that the song "The little old lady from Pasadena" By the "Beach Boys" were written about her. When she and I would go shopping She would lean over while she was driving and say "Don't tell any one how fast we were driving" and then giggle.
She lost the love of her life (William Kagy) in 1954. She watched her husband go in for a simple surgery and was devastated to learn of his passing while on the operating table. She tried the best she could to cope. She found solitude by walking over to graveyard late at night and would talk to her long departed husbands grave. They were very close. She worked by cleaning homes for wealthy families and then started working at the Singer Factory in Visalia California. She was an honest and extremely hardworking person. I admired her tenacity to survive. She choose to be a the best mother and grandmother regardless of her circumstances.
Grandma was very intuitive with those she loved. She demonstrated it all the time. I will never forget how she would be talking and all of a sudden she would stop and say "I need to call ?" and sure enough it was a signal to contact them. It was so amazing to watch.
She told me that her mother was an angry woman who taught her "Nothing". Her mother would punish her and her sister's by making them go out and bring in a cutting off a rose bush and she would whip them with it. She did not even like to mention her mothers name or the abuse. I am so great full that she found a peaceful and loving Husband and Father for he taught her that she could change and change she did.
She stated that she chose to break that cycle of anger and abuse. One of her greatest quotes,was "What do you chose to be remembered by Anger or Love"? Love is what she chose and she demonstrated that by showing how much she loved her children daily. I am so grateful that she decided to break the cycle of anger.
She was the one who taught me how to Bake Bread, and Cook from scratch. She also taught me how to Season Cast Iron skillets, Garden, Quilt and make homemade Jam.
She was the most forgiving person and always told me that life is something that you can not run from, but to stand there and hit it head on.
She was the true Matriarch of this Kagy family. God I miss you grandma but your example lives on in me daily especially pertaining to my children.
She passed from the complications of Osteoporosis and suffered latter in her life but never complained.
Thank you grandma for choosing to love us all so much and demonstrating how to love us as well and breaking that cycle of anger. God blessed us with your presence and instruction and I thank him for having you in our lives.
I will never forget you grandma and I miss you so much.I will love you forever.
We remember that big green box that stood beside that old kitchen stove-each Thursday would appear those loaves of bread and two over sized pans of cinnamon rolls. Oh how many times we tried to duplicate that flavor.
We remember those lean times mother never seemed to eat-she always said that each bite was filled with love when a little came from each of our plates.
No matter what the function mothers proud face was in the front row.
Mother loved people and people loved her evidence with her speeding home from work or shopping each day- that right hand on the steering wheel with her left arm out the window waving answering all those hello Goldie's.
But now the evening sun has set for her and she is gone, but not really because each day each our each minute we shower mom with our love and devotion one day because of her christian ways we will drop in on her forever in heaven.
September 8, 1986
The above tribute was written and read by her son William (Bill)L. Kagy at her funeral.
Goldie was my grandmother and Confidant. She was full of wisdom and had a infectious nature about her.
My fondest memories was all the countless hours that my grandmother my mom and I would always stay up late talking until 2am sharing family stories, and then I would go to sleep laying on fresh cotton sheets that smelled so clean because they were hung dry outside in the sun. I will never forget the windows being open and the cool breeze that would feel like heaven and always hearing the cows bellowing out side that would calm me to sleep.
It was always like clock work waking up at 5am before the sun came up and smell the bacon cooking.Oh my I miss that! I will never forget the early morning hours spending time setting at the breakfast table eating her home made biscuits and strawberry jam and sharing family history and photos again.
I also miss having her give me a salt shaker and say go out in the garden and pick lunch which was a beefsteak tomato and a red sweet onion with fresh cucumbers.
She would always have her homemade persimmon cookies in the freezer ready for me to eat "Frozen" with fresh coffee.
Those are the enduring moments that no money can ever replace!! I feel blessed to have such loving memories one in which I search for to this day.
She married at 15 and all that she learned about running a household was taught by her husband. She was truly one who learned from the school of hard knocks. She learned fast for her own family grew so fast. Life was truly difficult for her and her husband financially but she always said that if you have family what more would one want. She "LOVED" her children more than life itself. I will never forget when she shared with me that she always waited to eat until all her children ate and even watched them eat seconds and she would eat their scraps. She truly knew how to survive against all odds.She could open the refrigerator and make an entire meal out of bits and pieces of leftovers for food was not wasted in her home.
The one memory about my grandmother was that she loved to drive fast. She could maneuver a car with ease at any speed. All the family would tell her that the song "The little old lady from Pasadena" By the "Beach Boys" were written about her. When she and I would go shopping She would lean over while she was driving and say "Don't tell any one how fast we were driving" and then giggle.
She lost the love of her life (William Kagy) in 1954. She watched her husband go in for a simple surgery and was devastated to learn of his passing while on the operating table. She tried the best she could to cope. She found solitude by walking over to graveyard late at night and would talk to her long departed husbands grave. They were very close. She worked by cleaning homes for wealthy families and then started working at the Singer Factory in Visalia California. She was an honest and extremely hardworking person. I admired her tenacity to survive. She choose to be a the best mother and grandmother regardless of her circumstances.
Grandma was very intuitive with those she loved. She demonstrated it all the time. I will never forget how she would be talking and all of a sudden she would stop and say "I need to call ?" and sure enough it was a signal to contact them. It was so amazing to watch.
She told me that her mother was an angry woman who taught her "Nothing". Her mother would punish her and her sister's by making them go out and bring in a cutting off a rose bush and she would whip them with it. She did not even like to mention her mothers name or the abuse. I am so great full that she found a peaceful and loving Husband and Father for he taught her that she could change and change she did.
She stated that she chose to break that cycle of anger and abuse. One of her greatest quotes,was "What do you chose to be remembered by Anger or Love"? Love is what she chose and she demonstrated that by showing how much she loved her children daily. I am so grateful that she decided to break the cycle of anger.
She was the one who taught me how to Bake Bread, and Cook from scratch. She also taught me how to Season Cast Iron skillets, Garden, Quilt and make homemade Jam.
She was the most forgiving person and always told me that life is something that you can not run from, but to stand there and hit it head on.
She was the true Matriarch of this Kagy family. God I miss you grandma but your example lives on in me daily especially pertaining to my children.
She passed from the complications of Osteoporosis and suffered latter in her life but never complained.
Thank you grandma for choosing to love us all so much and demonstrating how to love us as well and breaking that cycle of anger. God blessed us with your presence and instruction and I thank him for having you in our lives.
I will never forget you grandma and I miss you so much.I will love you forever.
Family Members
Children
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Ruth Loretta "Ruthie" Kagy Wells
1925–2001
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Dorothy Mae "Dot" Kagy Waddle
1927–1992
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Mrs Wilma Gertrude Kagy Fenley
1929–2016
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Paul Laverne "Blue or Sonny" Kagy
1930–1999
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Pauline Fern "Polly" Kagy Staley
1930–2000
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Helen Louise Kagy Martin
1932–2020
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Nellie Lou Kagy Butterfield
1934–1999
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Barbara Jean "Bobby" Kagy Childres
1936–2009
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Shirly Ann Kagy
1937–1937
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Evelyn June Kagy Moore Pulido
1938–2011
