Kathryn Marie “Katie” Baer, 84, of Wabash, Indiana, died at 8:45 am, Saturday, January 8, 2022, at Wellbrooke of Wabash. She was born on August 4, 1937, in Wabash, to Theodore Robert and Leah Marjorie (Temple) Snavely.
Katie married Todd Baer in Lexington, Kentucky on November 12, 1985. She was a self employed seamstress for 68 years, and did alterations for Dick’s Menswear, Max’s Gentry Shop, Rusie’s, Wassmans, Hang Ups, Emma Lou’s, The Francis Shoppe, and her friends at Grandstaff-Hentgen, all in Wabash. She was a member of the Wabash Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by her husband, Todd Baer of Wabash, five children, Mike (Mary) Loe of Sebring, Florida, Tony (Kathy) Loe, Carolyn Stansbury, and Stacie (Jeff) Denniston, all of Wabash, and Deborah (Michael) Bechtol of Somerset, Indiana, two step daughters, Angie DeLauter of Columbia City, Indiana, and Lisa (Scott) Hearn of Wabash, 11 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren, 11 great great grandchildren, 6 step grandchildren, 13 step great grandchildren, brother, James (Sue) Snavely of Wabash, and two sisters, Jeanne Urschel and Margie (Rick) Baxter, all of Wabash. She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers Dick Snavely, John Bill Snavely, Bob Lee Snavely, and Tom Snavely, and three sisters, Mary Snavely, Marilyn Rider, and Nancy Gribben.
Funeral services will be 2:00 pm, Thursday, January 13, 2022, at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, with Pastor J.P. Freeman officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Lawns Cemetery, Wabash. Friends may call 3-7 pm Wednesday, at the funeral home. The family asks that masks be worn.
Preferred memorial is Animal Shelter of Wabash County.
The memorial guest book for Katie may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.
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