Obituary: Kathryn Magnan

Kathryn Magnan

Sheyenne, N.D.

Kathryn "Kathy" Ann Magnan, 69, of Sheyenne, N.D. passed away Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, at Sheyenne, N.D.

Funeral service was held on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 at First Lutheran Church, Sheyenne, N.D. Burial will be at the Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Brainerd, Minn., at a later date. Rev. Jeff Halvorson officiated the service with special music by Bonnie Deagan and Marci Grohs. Honorary bearers were all of Kathy's family and close friends.

Kathy was born on Jan. 9, 1953, in Brainerd, Minn., to Margaret "Marge" R. (Guzek) and Wallace "Wally" E. Magnan. She and her siblings, cousins and friends spent their days on Gull Lake, growing up at the Parkview Resort, run by the Magnan family.

Kathy attended St. Frances Catholic School in Brainerd for eight years and graduated from Brainerd High School in 1972. She got her Bachelor's Degree from Bemidji State University in Minnesota and her Master's Degree from the University of North Dakota, followed by a 40-year teaching career, most of those years spent teaching at Warwick High School in Warwick, N.D.

Kathy is survived by her brother Craig (Barbara) of Isle, Minn., sister Marcia of Burleson, Texas, brother Jeff of Gardner, Mass.; niece Frances "Frankie", and nephews Carl, Paul and Joseph.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Wallace and Margaret, a brother Douglas, and sister-in-law Susan.

Arrangements by Evans Funeral Home of New Rockford, N.D.