Sweet Memories of Katie

Early on Saturday morning, July 26th, we attended the memorial service for Katie Reider, an amazing human being and extremely talented singer/songwriter. She died much, much too young but in her lifetime acquired a legacy of music and friends of someone three times her years. Although the church auditorium was enormous the entire first floor was overflowing with people who wanted to celebrate her life. Katie was younger than both of my daughters and I had only met her twice but as her partner and wife, Karen, said during the service, people who had spent only five minutes with Katie felt she was their best friend. This was my experience when Jim and I had the pleasure of talking with her at Tall Stacks. Since her death a week earlier I had been listening to her songs and reading her lyrics on-line. It is a blessing that she will continue to inspire us all with the songs and the story of the life she lived.