Lorna Kathleen "Kathy" Baxter

Lorna Kathleen “Kathy” Baxter passed unexpectedly from this life to eternity on Thursday, October 27, 2011.

Born March 2,1946, to Earl and Lorna Erickson, Kathy spent her early years in the Bay Area of California. On July 17,1963, she met her one true love, Raymond Baxter, a firefighter in the Sacramento area. Kathy graduated from Sir Francis Drake High School on Friday, June 12, 1964, and married Ray the next day in Reno, NV.

Ray and Kathy lived in the Sacramento, CA area for 43 years and raised their four children – Kim, Brenda, Kenny and Krissy. In 2007, Ray and Kathy moved to Oregon and built their dream home in Sunny Valley. It was there that she was the happiest and it is there that she will rest.

Kathy was a beautiful, loving, devoted and supportive wife to Ray for 47 years. She was a caring, loving and attentive mother to her children who are spread out from California to Oklahoma, and an absolutely amazing grandmother. She had five grandchildren, Samantha, Joshua, Alex, Dillon and Cooper. Each of them had their own special name for her – Mama, Grandma, Nanny Vassi, and she was so proud of that. To know her was to love her and even after one meeting, she always considered someone her friend. She has friends across the country that all had a special place in her kind and generous heart. She had a vibrancy for life and for her family like none other. She was at her best when caring for others and will be missed beyond imagination until we can be with her again.