Kathleen Greene

Kathleen Kerger Greene passed away after a long and courageous fight with cancer at home with family in Longmont on January 12. Kathy was born in Cook County, Illinois on October 3, 1939. She lived in Springfield, Illinois for several years with her parents, Dorothy and Ray Kerger. After her father's death during naval service in the Second World War, she and her mother moved to Rochester, Minnesota where she grew up. She then moved to Philadelphia after her mother married Thomas Adair Tyler, II and met her brother and sister by marriage, Sarah and Thomas Adair Tyler, III.

After graduating from Rochester High School, Kathy went to Grinnell College in Iowa where she obtained a B.A. In Sociology in 1961. While there, she developed a love for Anthropology and Archeology. She then moved to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder where she obtained her Master's Degree in Anthropology in 1964, specializing in Archeology. She also met her husband David who was a graduate student in that department. They married in 1962 at her parent's home in Laverock, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Kathy learned the tools of the trade as a field archaeologist at Fort Burgwin, near Taos, New Mexico. She sharpened them as a field assistant to Dr. Joe Ben Wheat at excavation into an Anasazi prehistoric village at Yellow Jacket, Colorado. Kathy became a member of the University of Colorado Nubian Expedition during 1963-1964. She participated as a field archaeologist, while her husband was one of the physical anthropologists on the team. They excavated numerous important archeological sites along the Nile Valley in Nubia, Sudan that were to be destroyed by the rising flood waters of Lake Nubia as it was being built to the north at Aswan Egypt. Kathy co-authored a number of research papers on this work.

Kathy and her husband lived in Buffalo, New York where he had become an Assistant Professor of Anthropolgy and Orthopedics at the State University of New York. They then moved to the University of Wyoming at Laramie for a few years before settling in Boulder, Colorado in 1967 where her husband had become a professor of Anthropology. She worked a number of years as the Field Director in Archeology for the Department's Summer Institutes in Anthropology.

Her son Andrew David Greene was born in 1970 and Kathy then worked part time so she could devote as much time as possible to her son. She did volunteer work at his grade school and was his Cub Pack Scout Pack Leader for several years. She also worked part time for the Picture Lady in Louisville as an office assistant and then developed, wrote and graded a number of Anthropology courses through the University of Colorado's Division of Continuing Education Correspondence Course Programs beginning around 1980 until she retired in 2013. She won many accolades as an outstanding teacher.

When her widowed mother moved to Boulder in the 1980's, Kathy and she joined the Boulder Garden Club. She became very active, serving as President for several terms as well as hold other offices. She truly enjoyed her participation as she loved flowers all of her life.

Kathy is survived by her dear husband David, her loving son Andrew, his wife Sarah, and her very precious granddaughter Adilynn, her dear step sister Sarah, and dear friend and former sister in-law, Elizabeth. And by a brother and sister in-law, many beloved nephews and nieces and grandnieces and grandnephews. As well as many close, wonderful friends from her work at the Picture Lady, the University and the Boulder Garden Club.

Kathleen you incredible, wonderful, intelligent, loving and outgoing woman, you will be missed!

There will be an open house/gathering remembrance of Kathy at her son's home this Saturday, January 17, from 2 - 5 PM. The location can be obtained by contacting Andrew or David Greene.