{"id":16,"date":"2021-07-26T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriskellyauthor.mysites.io\/katie-heath-rip-1953-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-07-26T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:03:00","slug":"katie-heath-rip-1953-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authorchristopherkelly.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Katie Heath RIP (1953 – 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Katie Heath RIP
1953 – 2021
From “Cooties” to Covid-19<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

My sister Katie was born in 1953 to Clinton Elliot and Nina Van Rensselaer.  Nina subsequently divorced and married my father Robert Kelly in Sacramento, California.  My dad adopted Katie (and my brother Clinton) at the time of his marriage to Nina which followed a whirlwind romance in Cuba and Mexico City.  Katie, born in New York, grew up as a California girl in sultry Sacramento where she loved to swim, ride horses and dance.<\/p>\n

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Katie had been born into the sunnier days of the Eisenhower administration.  Life was a bit easier and simpler back then.  They were more worried about catching “cooties” than deadly viruses.  Hula hoops were a bigger thing than Social Media.  Everybody liked Ike.  And Katie was very likable too.  Everybody liked Katie.<\/p>\n

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In 1960s California Katie grew to be a free spirit.  Perhaps even hippie.  She wore granny glasses and plastic mini skirts.  She love the Beattles and especially Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band.  She graduated from San Dominico school near San Francisco which is going strong to this day (https:\/\/www.sandomenico.org<\/a>).  She thought that many of the nuns were cool — one of the coolest wore a superman T-shirt underneath her habit!<\/p>\n