Born in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany. Her father Lorenz was a Shoemaker, her mother Barbara a home maker. She spent many happy days with her siblings, a brother, Josef and a sister, Maya collecting foxtails and swimming along the Regnitz River, picking apples at the Altenburg and attending church with her family at St. Martin’s church. She was five years old when Hitler came to power. At seventeen she met and fell in love with an American soldier and at nineteen, left Germany to marry Joseph Paul Laurio in the United States.
Joe and Kate had 8 children together, six boys and two girls. They were married in Massachusetts, Joe’s home-state but in 1962 moved the family to San Diego, California where they raised their children, worked and retired.
Kate worked part time for a number of years at the St. Benedictine Convent where she cooked for twenty-six nuns. She was a dedicated home-maker with a cheerful disposition and a kind heart.
In 2002, she and Joe would move to Hemet, California where they lived the remainder of their lives. Kate was 78 years old when she lost the love of her life in 2006.
Kate passed away at their home on October 11, 2020 with her loving daughter Barbara and son-in-law Brian by her side. She is pre-deceased by her husband, Joe. She is survived by her children, Robert & wife Leslie, Joseph Jr. & wife June, Kenneth, Thomas & wife Jenny, Barbara Price & husband Brian, Christine Bauman & husband John, Brian & wife Debbie, and David & wife Andrea.
She is also survived by grandchildren Tammy, Kevin, Timothy, Jesse, Luke, Miranda, Jonas, Gabriel, Joshua, Sean, Michael, Katelyn and Adyson. Also great grandchildren Ashley, Jax, Boston, Abigail, Jonathan, Thomas, Thaddeus and Annelise.
She was married for 58-1/2 years to her sweetheart, now reunited with him and her loving Saviour, Jesus Christ forever. We treasure the time when we are all together again in heaven.
A necklace which was a gift to her from Joe perhaps sums up her time here on earth best. Joe had a heart engraved for his sweetheart which reads “Mon Coeur est Votre Coeur” or “My Heart is your Heart”
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