Mary Kach (Kimm)

MARY F. KACH (KIMM)

Cedar Rapids

Mary F. Kach (Kimm), 67, of Spring Hill, Fla., and formerly of Cedar Rapids, died Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, in Spring Hill. A memorial will be held in the spring; watch Facebook for date and location. Interment will be at Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Blairstown, Iowa.

Mary is survived by her husband, Doug Kach; children, Tressa (Darren Naber) Scott and Tara (Ryan Donkersloot) Sloan; brothers, Byran (Tracie) Kimm, Brett (Diane) Kimm and Brad (Cindi) Kimm; sisters, Sharon (Bob) Gorsh, Brenda (Gary) Hansen and Reg Kimm; sister-in-law, Patty Kimm; and father, Franny Kimm of Keystone.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Martha Kimm; infant brother, John; and brother, David Kimm.

Mary was born in Belle Plaine, Iowa, on Oct. 12, 1949. She graduated from Benton Community High School in 1968. She worked at Amana Refrigeration for over 20 years. Mary married Doug Kach on May 15, 1993, and moved to Cedar Rapids. Mary, like her father, would talk to anyone and always brought a smile to their face.

Mary enjoyed decades of photography, doing wedding, graduations and family portraits as Mary Frances Studio. One of her prints was reproduced by P. Buckly Moss. Mary also enjoyed working retail and was employed at Fittings Unlimited before her retirement.

Mary and Doug moved to Florida in 2013 to enjoy the weather, and she enjoyed hosting her family and friends at their home. Mary contracted cancer in 2014, and was a breast cancer survivor only to succumb to side effects of her treatment with heart failure on Nov. 21, 2016.

Mary's greatest joys were her daughters and grandsons, Cole Scott and Connor Thompson, watching her nieces and nephews grow up, and her adopted student son from Germany, Chris Ixmann, who lived with them for a year.

Thank you to all family and friends who prayed for her. She will be missed.