The news of her sudden death was shocking to those at Lumen Christi. Without her (painting the upper room) probably wouldn’t have happened.”
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Truffert added, “Kathy knows how to make things happen. “Kathy just kind of ran with that … she’s just such a natural leader.” Sanders thought it would be a nice place to hold parish meetings. “It essentially was an abandoned attic with a lot of character,” Truffert said. Truffert didn’t know Weiss until they worked together painting the “upper room” at Lumen Christi. She also had a way of making things happen, noted another parishioner, John Truffert. Wenzler also heard about a past staff appreciation day at Lumen Christi where she placed a “banner or flower on every teacher’s door in the whole school,” he said, describing Weiss’s way of acknowledging others. “And what she wants to see better for the kids.” “We talked at length about Catholic education we talked at length about service and her dreams and her hopes,” Wenzler said. Weiss had a friend who worked closely with the organization. Sander said, “(Wenzler) talked about what a funeral is like, where our faith is at when someone dies … topics that we don’t take time out (to discuss) so he was able to help with that for the whole class.”ĭuring this process, Wenzler thought about his own interactions with Weiss and remembered a coffee conversation they had about Pivotal Directions. Noting that death and funerals aren’t common occurrences for grade school children, Fr. “It’s a terrible tragedy but it does bring out the best sometimes.” “They just started saying, ‘She was always positive she always had a smile she was always giving she was an amazing lady,’” Wenzler said. He said he asked them what they should talk about when referring to Weiss. “It was the most amazing thing,” Wenzler said about his discussion with the students. Sanders to offer grief counseling to the students particularly those in sixth grade. Wenzler, founder of Pivotal Directions, a nonprofit organization that engages students in “service-learning” projects around the world, was asked by Fr. They do so much more for the students and the parents.” “These room mothers at Lumen Christi, a Catholic school that is a little light on the funding, the room mothers might as well be on the payroll,” said Jeff Wenzler, friend of the Weiss family and parishioner. Weiss was a volunteer at the parish and “room mother” for her son, Christopher’s sixth grade class. “It sounds like hyperbole or exaggeration, but a lot of parents looked to her and her husband as role models for themselves as parents,” he said. Sanders said it will be difficult for the parish to move forward without her. “She felt the need for the kids to appreciate their classmates and their classmates’ families … she’s known as the mom who cares for all the kids.”įr. “She took it upon herself to do all the organizing for that and helped get the other volunteers,” Fr. Last year, he recalled, Weiss gathered all the children in her daughter Madison’s eighth grade class at Lumen Christi School for activities and to strengthen their bond as a class. He also described Weiss as a giving member of the parish who often displayed “a tremendous spirit.” Dan Sanders, commented on the enormous outpouring of support the family received in the days following the accident. The faith community of Lumen Christi was rocked with the death of Katherine Weiss, 46, who died May 28, leaving behind a husband, Bryan, and three children, Alex, Madison and Christopher.ĭuring her funeral Mass, the parish’s pastor, Fr.
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Once inside the church, finding a seat wasn’t any easier as pews were full and chairs were brought in to fill every space. MEQUON - The parking lot at Lumen Christi Parish was so full Saturday, June 1, people invented their own spots.
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