Katerine P Stanley

Katherine Lee Stanley, 89, passed away on Wednesday, November 16, 2016. She was born March 1, 1927 in Louisville, Kentucky to Cleo Kingham Lamb and S. K. Lamb. She attended Atherton High School for two and on half years but graduated from Shawnee High School in January of 1945. She and her family moved to Davenport, Florida in November of 1945. On February 9, 1946 she married Dick Stanley of Auburndale. After a five month stay in Lakeland, they moved to Auburndale, and then to Gainesville where he attended the University of Florida. After his graduation, they moved to Immokalee, Florida where he practiced law and was Prosecuting Attorney and later Collier County Judge. They were divorced in 1964.

She and the children moved to Palatka, Florida where she attended St. John’s River Jr. College. She transferred her family to Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. While there, she attended Gulf Coast Junior College. In 1969 she and her children moved to Tallahassee, Florida where she attended Florida State University School of Library Science. She was hired by the Leon County Public Library, working the Extension Department (branches and bookmobile). She retired in 1989. In 1992 she briefly moved to Felda, Florida. Being only 10 miles away she was able to attend the First United Methodist Church of Immokalee where she was the last living charter member. She moved back to Tallahassee in 2002. Before her health failed, she was an active member of John Wesley United Methodist Church and Quilters Unlimited of Tallahassee. A part of the charity work of the guild, she knitted over 100 preemie caps for the neonatal ward. She also knitted 56 Caps for Troops.

Katherine is preceded in death by her parents and her first child, Richard McLaughlin “Mac” Stanley, who died of Cystic Fibrosis in 1953. She is survived by one son, Robert Lewis (Laurie) Stanley and one daughter, Emma Kate, who live in Felda as well as Fort Myers, Fl.; one daughter, Robbin Louise (Eddy) Godwin who live in Tallahassee, their son, Lane (Jackie) Godwin and their son, Brandon; their daughter, Amy (Josiah) Bullock and their son, Silas; her half-brother, Dallas L. Powell, Jr., of Palmetto and his son, Dallas L. Powell, III, and daughter, Vicky; and Charles (Kristen) and daughter, Kaitlyn of Bradenton. There will be no services. Katherine wishes that she be cremated and her ashes placed under a dogwood to nourish it and provide beauty when it blooms in the spring and feed the birds in the fall.