KATHRYN LACHANCE
KATHRYN ALICE LACHANCE OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI ON JULY 1, 1912. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JOHN AND ROSE (KERLICK) ELSEY. KATHRYN DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HER HOME ON DECEMBER 30, 2002 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF NINETY YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND TWENTY-NINE DAYS.
KATHRYN WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOHN LACHANCE IN 1935 IN FARMINGTON, MISSOURI AND TO THIS UNION ONE CHILD WAS BORN. JOHN PRECEDED HIS WIFE IN DEATH.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY SON, ROBERT LACHANCE AND WIFE JOYCE OF FLORIDA, SISTER, ALICE DOUGLAS OF WASHINGTON, MISSOURI AND THREE GRANDCHILDREN.
KATHRYN WAS LOVED BY ALL WHO WERE BLESSED TO KNOW HER. SHE WAS AN INSPIRATION TO MANY STUDENTS TO PURSUE TEACHING CAREERS. SHE WILL BE LOVINGLY MISSED BY ALL.
VISITATION WAS HELD 4:00 PM TO 9:00 PM ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2003 AND 9:00 AM TO 10:45 AM ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2003 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
A FUNERAL SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED 11:00 AM THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2002 AT THE MINERAL POINT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WITH REVEREND DON KUEHLE AND REVEREND BOB BULLOCK OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE SUNSET HILL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, JEFF LACHANCE, TOBY LEWALLEN, DON DOUGLAS, LEE DOUGLAS, TERRY DOUGLAS, TOM DEGONIA AND RICK GARRIS.