Kathy Tolman Harwood

Kathy had a great love for things of the mind—for books, art, and music—and for most anything that was purple, and she approached life with a zestful and indefatigable combination of passion and pragmatism. She first met her husband, Gregory William Harwood, while they were serving church missions in Italy; they later married while they were graduate students at NYU and have been happily married for 33 years.

She held a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from New York University and, at one time or another, taught every grade from Kindergarten through college. In 2002, she became the founding Director of the Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts & Technology, the first state charter school in Georgia, and in 2011 received the “Shoot for the Moon Award” awarded by the Georgia Charter School Association for Distinguished Service to Charter Schools. Kathy was a champion of women and of adolescents, whose sometime quirky behavior she found endearing.

Kathy is survived by her husband Greg, her children Martin and Elizabeth, a daughter-in-law, Miriam, and two beloved grandchildren, Eliza and William.

A memorial service will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1526 Fair Road, Statesboro on Saturday March 5 at 2:00 p.m.

Interment will take place prior to the service on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Corinth-Leefield Cemetery in Brooklet.

Please visit our online memorial at www.hodgesmoore.com to sign the guest book and share fond memories with the Harwood family.

Hodges-Moore Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements.