Katherine G. Shaw

Rock Island, Illinois
Katherine G. Shaw, 93, formerly of Rock Island and Moline, Illinois, died Wednesday, July 25, 2012, at Bettendorf Health Care Center, Bettendorf, Iowa.
Services are 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline. Burial is in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. Visitation is 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials may me made to Visiting Nurses and Homemakers Association or Iowa Hospice.
The former Katherine Geraldine Little was born August 9, 1918, in Moline, Illinois, the daughter of William Thomas and Emma Nave Little. She graduated from Moline High School, and married Raymond K. Shaw on May 15, 1937, in Galesburg, Illinois. He died January 15, 1996. She had been a data transcriber at the Rock Island Arsenal for five years, retiring in 1979.
Kay was active in many community activities, and had a leadership role in many organizations, including First Christian Church, Moline, Rock Island Woman?s Club, PTA, King?s Daughters, YWCA, AARP, Rock Island Convalescent Center Auxiliary, and National Association of Retired Federal Employees. She enjoyed needlepoint.
Kay is survived by four children and their spouses, Judith and Gerald McConoughey of Portland, Oregon, Barbara and Thomas Ostrowski of Quincy, Illinois, William and Abigail Shaw and Bettendorf, and Dr. Richard and Michele Shaw of Tucson, Arizona; five grandchildren and their spouses, Dr. Laura and James Buscher, Robert and Angel McConoughey, David and Christine Ostrowski, Monika Ostrowski, and Logan and Jamie Shaw; 13 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and a sister-in-law, Jean Caton of College Station, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband, and a brother, John Little.
Kay?s family invites friends to share stories and condolences and light a candle in her memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.