Pamela G Kabalin

Pamela Grace Kabalin, 50, of Scottsbluff, died Thursday, September 30, 2010 at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, after a prolonged illness. Pamela was born September 22, 1960, in Los Angeles, California, the only daughter of Berdell and Ray White. She especially enjoyed tennis and music during her youth. She graduated from Marymount High School and then attended Stanford University in California. At Stanford, Pamela met her future husband, John Nicholas Kabalin. They became engaged and were married on July 11, 1981. They lived first in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was attending medical school, then moved back to Stanford, California, and finally settled in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, in 1997, which she called home. In Scottsbluff, she devoted her intelligence, charm, energy, and time to multiple charitable and community causes, including the Panhandle Humane Society, Theatre West, the Midwest Theater, and the West Nebraska Arts Center. She represented Western Nebraska as a member of the board of the Museum of Nebraska Art, in Kearney. Her special passion was the arts in all forms, and supporting and disseminating the arts in her community. This extended to nearby Denver, where she was a contributor to both the Denver Art Museum and Opera Colorado. Pamela loved art, literature, and music. She played the piano, and sang with the Stanford Chorus and Scottsbluff’s Valley Voices. She was a talented writer, and successfully published short stories and poetry. Above all else, Pamela was a good neighbor and friend to many in the community, and was dedicated to her family, her mother Berdell and her husband John. Her life was too short, she was much loved, and she will be dearly missed. Pamela is survived by her husband John Kabalin, her mother Berdell White, her father Ray White and her nephew and godson Jacob Angel Kabalin, as well as extended family and many good friends.