Kathryn Hubbard Stotler
April 6, 1952-May 8, 2024

Kathryn was born on April 6, 1952, in Muncie, Indiana to Carolyn and Charles Meredith Hubbard. Her family moved six years later from the Midwest to Southern California. Her father had accepted a teaching position with the music department of Cal State LA.

Kathryn was married to Chuck Stotler for 45 years. Many of those years they resided in Monterey, where Kathryn taught special education classes for 8 years before shifting to real estate sales. They moved to Arcata in 1990 after the birth of their son, Thomas. Soon after that, their daughter, Haley, was born.

Kathy loved the arts and was very involved in the local arts community. For several years she wove colorful blankets and sold them in various cities nationally, before shifting to abstract painting. She captured an aliveness of the coastal elements in abstract form.

Kathy is predeceased by her parents and is survived by her brother Richard Hubbard, as well as her sister Cindy, her sister-in-law Diane Turner and husband Larry Turner, niece Elizabeth, husband Rob Faus, and their son Reo. She is also survived by her husband, Chuck Stotler, son Thomas Stotler, daughter Haley Grimm, son-in-law Colin Grimm and grandson Austin Grimm.

Kathy will be missed most for her cheerfulness, engaging personality, and intelligence. Pancreatic cancer may have stopped her from creating works of art, but her beauty, intelligence, and kindness will live on for those who were lucky enough to have known her.