KATHY
WAS CALLED HOME
BY GOD

Because She Looked With Loving Eyes,
My Daughter Saw So Much
The Seed That Is, The Flower That Could Be.
She Saw The Petals Forming And Envisioned There The Bloom
Then Nurtured Its Unfolding Patiently As a

loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, granddaughter, aunt and a best friend to all. She was in perfect health, didn't smoke, drink, and wasn't taking any medication. She played golf, basketball, softball, bowled and could work circles around people, men or women

The night before she died, I had been at their house for dinner. Kathy, Bryan and Grandma worked with Adam who was trying to learn to walk on his own at age 10 months. He had taken his first steps in front of Grandma without assistance. We were all very proud of his accomplishment.

The next day Kathy spoke with me several times over the phone, the last time being at 2:10 p.m. She was happy, laughing, playing with Adam over the phone, talking baby talk with Grandma. She gave no indication that she wasn't feeling well or that she was in any apparent distress. She had baby sat with two little boys under the age of three and their parents had picked them up by 2:30 when Bryan got off the school bus.

Bryan, age 9, came into the house and Kathy had her legs curled up on the couch and she was doing a crossword puzzle while watching her soap's. Adam was taking a nap. Bryan always came home and hugged his Mom and they went over his school papers together. They talked about his day in school and Bryan got an after school snack. After his snack, she reminded him he needed to feed and water his dog, Missy.

He went outside to put the dog on a leash from her kennel, when she ran between his legs, across the yard and down the driveway. Bryan started after her and Kathy told Bryan to go into the house with Adam and she would get the dog. She was seen by a neighbor going up the road where she leashed Missy and started back towards home.

But before she came into view, at the end of their driveway, she collapsed in the middle of the road. A neighbor saw her fall, called 911, rushed down his driveway and began CPR before the ER squad arrived. She was taken to Good Sam Hospital in Zanesville where they pronounced her dead at 4:36 p.m. Her autopsy revealed her cause of death to be Probable Cardiac Arrhythmia due to Mitral Valve Prolapse.

Ispoke with a friend of the family who was working in Good Sam at the time of Kathy's death. When she realized it was Kathy they had brought into the hospital, she went to ER to see if Kathy was OK or if there was something she could do for the family. She was shocked when the nurses on duty told her that the doctor had tried repeatedly to revive Kathy but each time he thought he brought her back, he lost her again.

Finally, he kissed her hand and said, "I am so terribly sorry, I know you are a young mother with two small children, but I can't save you." And with that.......... at age 31 years, 1 month, and 29 days, Kathryn Jo Zupp Thompson Coulter was taken Home to be with God.. Kathy died on September 10, 1997.

SADLY MISSED BY US ALL