Katherine Ann (Mendello) Rinearson, age 84, has gone to be with the Lord on Sunday, August 25, 2024 at her residence. Born in Albany, New York on April 25, 1940. She went on to receive her high school diploma before meeting and marrying her husband, Leonard Rinearson in Marion, Ohio in 1987.
Katherine was very active in the community, helping young mothers in need through the crisis pregnancy program she started, ‘Heartbeat’, where she helped them with supplies like diapers, cribs, food, appointments, counselors, and much more. She never hesitated to help someone in need, especially with providing resources to those going through hard times. She was a home maker that took her role seriously, her home always smelled of lasagna and other great Italian food that she was known to make from scratch. She loved to cook and feeding those she cared about was her love language. She doted on her grandchildren and was the proudest grandma in the world. She was a woman of God and never hesitated to pray for and with those who needed the Word.
She is preceded in death by her mother, father, Ray C. Parks, her sisters, Mary Wilson and Josephine ‘Jo’ Mendello, her son, John (Karen) Lutz, her granddaughter, Morgan Ray Lutz, and her niece, Silva Keller.
She leaves behind her daughter, Julie (Luke) McGuire, sons, Leonard (Mary Ann) C. Lutz, Gary (Debbie) Lutz, Franklin (Andrea) Lutz, Dean Lutz, Donny (Sandy) Lutz, brother, Junior Parks, niece, Sheila McClowsky, her 24 grandchildren and many great grandchildren.
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