Kathryn Hann

Kathryn Jean Roberds-Hann passed away on March 3rd, 2020, due to complications involving a traffic incident. She is survived by her only living child, her daughter Holly. Kathy is now at peace with her sons Robert "Bob" and Patrick.

On the afternoon of March 2nd, Kathy was running errands around town in her motorized wheelchair. She was heading eastbound on Mayberry Ave, about to cross Palm Ave, when she was struck by a lifted white truck, turning south onto Palm. Apparently, they didn't see her and dragged her down the road. She survived the trauma of the initial hit but passed at 1:04 am, on March 3rd. Her death is considered an accidental homicide at this point.

Kathy was no stranger to tragedy; she helped bury her father on her birthday in 1991, then her mother on Kathy's wedding anniversary in 2006. She had lost two sons to the genetic condition, X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy. Her eldest son, Robert, required 24-hour care and was ventilator dependent until he passed in 2013, while Patrick succumbed at three-days-old in 1995. She was determined to help people how she could, so she became a Licensed Vocational Nurse in 1998. In 2003, Kathy was hit by an uninsured drunk driver in Temecula, California. This accident broke both of her ankles beyond repair and she was scalped by the force of impact with the steering wheel. In 2005, Kathy and her husband divorced, leaving her daughter as the primary caregiver of Kathy and Robert, both needing assistance to thrive. In 2010, her son Robert suffered from an anoxic brain injury, leaving him unable to communicate. She was determined to help care for him, bringing him home for hospice care until his passing in 2013.

Kathy had the heart of an adventurer. She loved to camp, especially near water; river-rafting, tubing, kayaking, fishing... she took in every moment. She became a passionate supporter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Make-A-Wish, and The Special Olympics, advocacy groups where her son could thrive without stigma. She accompanied Robert to MDA camp every summer and made sure he was involved in the Boy Scouts of America. When her daughter joined high school marching band, she quickly got to work as a hospitality specialist, coordinating and cooking for 200 hungry teenagers once a week, this task she took on less than a year after becoming bound to a wheelchair.

She loved road trips- from Yellowstone National Park, the Wasatch Range of Utah, to the Redwoods of Northern California, she took it all in. She fulfilled a life-long dream of cruising Hawaii, even bound to a wheelchair. She had told her daughter it was the most beautiful, and peaceful place she'd ever been. When Robert graduated high school, she made sure to fulfill his dream of seeing the beauty of Alaska's glaciers, taking her children on excursions in every port they visited. She wanted to thrive, even given circumstances and setbacks.

Kathryn's kindness and adventurous spirit lives on in the lives she touched.