Memorial service announced for Kathy Dunn

Published 12:59 pm Thursday, December 25, 2014

A public memorial service has been announced for Kathy Dunn, the retired kindergarten teacher and fourth-generation Bainbridge Island who died Dec. 22 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after being hit by a car earlier this month.

Family and friends are invited to attend the memorial service at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 3 in the commons at Bainbridge High School. A light reception will follow.

The family is requesting no flowers, as a scholarship fund has been set up in Dunn’s name.

Donations can be made to:

The Kathy Dunn Memorial Scholarship Fund

Bainbridge Island Education Foundation

BHS c/0 Dave Layton, President

9330 NE High School Road

Bainbridge Island WA 98110

Dunn, the daughter of Ick and Katy Warner, grew up on Bainbridge and graduated in the class of 1961 at Bainbridge High.

She earned a teaching degree from Seattle University and taught kindergarten at Ford Ord, an Army post on Monterey Bay in California, before meeting her husband, Dave Dunn, and moving back to Bainbridge Island.

Dunn taught kindergarten at Commodore and then at Captain Charles Wilkes Elementary for three decades before her first retirement in 2002.

She then became a first-grade aide at The Island School for seven years.

Dunn, 71, was struck while walking with her grandchildren in the parking lot near her condo. The Washington State Patrol is investigating the accident.