Greeley Tribune Greeley, Colorado 03-07-02 Katherine Wainner Katherine K. Wainner, 83, of Evans died Saturday, March 2, at North Colorado Medical Center. She was born May 18, 1918, to Linn Ulysses and Stella Lottie (Matlack) Keckler in Hutchinson, Kan. On July 17, 1938, she married Kenneth Fred Wainner. He died in 1981. Mrs. Wainner lived in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas before moving to Boulder in 1967 and to Longmont in 1979. She moved to Evans in July 2000. She worked with the Cub Scouts, helped her husband with Boy Scouts, and was also a Camp Fire Girl leader for nine years. After her husband’s heart attack, she took vocational nurses training at Oklahoma City and University hospitals. She loved her 23 years as a license practical nurse in Oklahoma and Colorado. In Colorado, Mrs. Wainner worked for Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder Memorial Hospital, Boulder Manor, Fraiser Meadows and Longmont United Hospital. Mrs. Wainner was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Longmont for many years, and currently was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Greeley. She was a volunteer at Longmont Meals on Wheels for 20 years and a 10-year volunteer at the OUR Center at Longmont. She loved the mountains, knitting, crocheting, sewing and baking. Survivors are her two daughters, Mary Kay Freeman of Littleton and Helen Chesnut of Greeley; two sons, Linn W. and Kenneth F. Wainner, both of Edmond, Okla.; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Cremation. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the First United Methodist Church of Longmont. Private inurnment will be in the Columbarium of Mountain View Memorial Park, Boulder. Contributions may be made to Longmont Meals on Wheels or the OUR Center in care of Ahlberg Funeral Chapel, Longmont.