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Kathe Kristine Fernandez
March 1, 1947 – November 28, 2023
Kathe Kristine Schrader Fernandez, 76, of Escondido, died November 28.
Ms. Fernandez was born on March 1, 1947 in Annapolis, Maryland to the late Alan and Esther Schrader (nee Baker). She graduated from Annapolis High School in 1965.
She attended and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio in 1969. During her junior year of college, she studied European Government and European History in Basel, Switzerland while also working part-time as a nurse's aide. When she was 21, Kathe lived on a kibbutz in West Galilee Israel performing farm & kitchen work, painting, and sorting & packaging dates. She worked as an information clerk at the United Nations in New York City in 1969. She joined the Peace Corp in 1970 and worked as a Health Educator for young women in San Juan Bautista, Misiones, Paraguay.
In 1975, she began her studying for a degree in Deaf/Hard of Hearing education at the University of Maryland and transferred to San Diego State in September of 1976. While at SDSU, she changed her major to Bilingual (Spanish) Elementary Education and earned her teaching credential in 1978.
She began her bilingual teaching career in 1979 and taught mainly 1st and 2nd grade, but did teach kindergarten, 3rd and 4th grades too. She loved teaching her students how to read and write and took great joy in seeing her students succeed. She went back to school in her mid 40's and earned her Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in 1990. She retired from teaching in 2009 after 30 dedicated years.
Her hobbies included crafts (sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, and needlepoint), learning, speaking, and writing languages (Spanish, French, German, and even a little Italian), learning to dance (tango, foxtrot, and square), traveling all over the world (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Costa Rica, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and many more). She loved volunteering in her grandson's class room and never missed a ballgame he played in.
Survivors include her son Saul Richard "Rick" Fernandez; daughter-in-law Kerri Fernandez; grandson Gavin Fernandez of Murrieta, California, and sister Janet Greentree of Burke, VA.
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Kathe Kristine Fernandez
March 1, 1947 – November 28, 2023
Kathe Kristine Schrader Fernandez, 76, of Escondido, died November 28.
Ms. Fernandez was born on March 1, 1947 in Annapolis, Maryland to the late Alan and Esther Schrader (nee Baker). She graduated from Annapolis High School in 1965.
She attended and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio in 1969. During her junior year of college, she studied European Government and European History in Basel, Switzerland while also working part-time as a nurse's aide. When she was 21, Kathe lived on a kibbutz in West Galilee Israel performing farm & kitchen work, painting, and sorting & packaging dates. She worked as an information clerk at the United Nations in New York City in 1969. She joined the Peace Corp in 1970 and worked as a Health Educator for young women in San Juan Bautista, Misiones, Paraguay.
In 1975, she began her studying for a degree in Deaf/Hard of Hearing education at the University of Maryland and transferred to San Diego State in September of 1976. While at SDSU, she changed her major to Bilingual (Spanish) Elementary Education and earned her teaching credential in 1978.
She began her bilingual teaching career in 1979 and taught mainly 1st and 2nd grade, but did teach kindergarten, 3rd and 4th grades too. She loved teaching her students how to read and write and took great joy in seeing her students succeed. She went back to school in her mid 40's and earned her Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in 1990. She retired from teaching in 2009 after 30 dedicated years.
Her hobbies included crafts (sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, and needlepoint), learning, speaking, and writing languages (Spanish, French, German, and even a little Italian), learning to dance (tango, foxtrot, and square), traveling all over the world (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Costa Rica, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and many more). She loved volunteering in her grandson's class room and never missed a ballgame he played in.
Survivors include her son Saul Richard "Rick" Fernandez; daughter-in-law Kerri Fernandez; grandson Gavin Fernandez of Murrieta, California, and sister Janet Greentree of Burke, VA.
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Kathe Kristine Fernandez
March 1, 1947 – November 28, 2023
Kathe Kristine Schrader Fernandez, 76, of Escondido, died November 28.
Ms. Fernandez was born on March 1, 1947 in Annapolis, Maryland to the late Alan and Esther Schrader (nee Baker). She graduated from Annapolis High School in 1965.
She attended and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio in 1969. During her junior year of college, she studied European Government and European History in Basel, Switzerland while also working part-time as a nurse's aide. When she was 21, Kathe lived on a kibbutz in West Galilee Israel performing farm & kitchen work, painting, and sorting & packaging dates. She worked as an information clerk at the United Nations in New York City in 1969. She joined the Peace Corp in 1970 and worked as a Health Educator for young women in San Juan Bautista, Misiones, Paraguay.
In 1975, she began her studying for a degree in Deaf/Hard of Hearing education at the University of Maryland and transferred to San Diego State in September of 1976. While at SDSU, she changed her major to Bilingual (Spanish) Elementary Education and earned her teaching credential in 1978.
She began her bilingual teaching career in 1979 and taught mainly 1st and 2nd grade, but did teach kindergarten, 3rd and 4th grades too. She loved teaching her students how to read and write and took great joy in seeing her students succeed. She went back to school in her mid 40's and earned her Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in 1990. She retired from teaching in 2009 after 30 dedicated years.
Her hobbies included crafts (sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, and needlepoint), learning, speaking, and writing languages (Spanish, French, German, and even a little Italian), learning to dance (tango, foxtrot, and square), traveling all over the world (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Costa Rica, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and many more). She loved volunteering in her grandson's class room and never missed a ballgame he played in.
Survivors include her son Saul Richard "Rick" Fernandez; daughter-in-law Kerri Fernandez; grandson Gavin Fernandez of Murrieta, California, and sister Janet Greentree of Burke, VA.
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Kathe Kristine Fernandez
March 1, 1947 – November 28, 2023
Kathe Kristine Schrader Fernandez, 76, of Escondido, died November 28.
Ms. Fernandez was born on March 1, 1947 in Annapolis, Maryland to the late Alan and Esther Schrader (nee Baker). She graduated from Annapolis High School in 1965.
She attended and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio in 1969. During her junior year of college, she studied European Government and European History in Basel, Switzerland while also working part-time as a nurse's aide. When she was 21, Kathe lived on a kibbutz in West Galilee Israel performing farm & kitchen work, painting, and sorting & packaging dates. She worked as an information clerk at the United Nations in New York City in 1969. She joined the Peace Corp in 1970 and worked as a Health Educator for young women in San Juan Bautista, Misiones, Paraguay.
In 1975, she began her studying for a degree in Deaf/Hard of Hearing education at the University of Maryland and transferred to San Diego State in September of 1976. While at SDSU, she changed her major to Bilingual (Spanish) Elementary Education and earned her teaching credential in 1978.
She began her bilingual teaching career in 1979 and taught mainly 1st and 2nd grade, but did teach kindergarten, 3rd and 4th grades too. She loved teaching her students how to read and write and took great joy in seeing her students succeed. She went back to school in her mid 40's and earned her Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in 1990. She retired from teaching in 2009 after 30 dedicated years.
Her hobbies included crafts (sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, and needlepoint), learning, speaking, and writing languages (Spanish, French, German, and even a little Italian), learning to dance (tango, foxtrot, and square), traveling all over the world (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Costa Rica, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and many more). She loved volunteering in her grandson's class room and never missed a ballgame he played in.
Survivors include her son Saul Richard "Rick" Fernandez; daughter-in-law Kerri Fernandez; grandson Gavin Fernandez of Murrieta, California, and sister Janet Greentree of Burke, VA.
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