LITTLE PETS asked: I believe so. I was very blessed to meet a remarkable woman in Redding, Ca. Her name was Kay Morris Long. I have never met a woman like her and i know that I will never meet another person like her again. I have never known anybody so beautiful in mind, body & spirit. I was blessed to know her for over 12 years. She was there when both my boys were born and was a part of my wedding party. She was my mentor and if I can become half the woman she was I can die happy. Sadly we lost her to cancer this last December. She was the Godmother to my boys and a wonderful friend. In your life do you have a special person like that?? I truly believe that God sends down angels to be people. And she was one of them!
I hope that all of you have a person like Kay in your life!! And If you don’t I pray that you find one! It is truly a blessing!
Jennifer
Cottonwood, CA
REDDING - Kathleen “Kay” Wetzel Morris Long, 68, a longtime psychotherapist and a recently ordained minister in “the River”, a non-denominational Christian network, died December 27 at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City from a rare form of cancer. The daughter of Nevin F. Wetzel and Jane Rawlins, Kay was born on July 9, 1939, and raised in Salt Lake, where she graduated from East High School and briefly attended the University of Utah. She completed her bachelor’s degree at San Jose State University and earned a master’s degree in social work from the Ohio State University in 1963.
She eventually settled in Redding, California, where she helped to established Stepping Stones in the 1970s, a highly successful program for troubled teenagers, and carried on a private career as a therapist for many years. She traveled widely - to Israel, China, Mexico and Russia, among other countries-and in semi-retirement became a painter of works expressing the spontaneous outpouring
the Holy Spirit.
A child of divorce, Kay was a bridge-builder who nurtured strong ties among and between members of her own family. She reached out to sons, daughters, parents, nieces, nephews, and cousins in a widening circle that erased the word “step” from the vocabulary of her extended family relationships. She thrived on family and friend get-togethers and forged close bonds with her children and grandchildren. Similarly, Kay enjoyed close friendships with other professionals in social work and psychology as well as fellow worshippers at Bethel Church in Redding.
Typical of Kay’s independent spirit and determination, she enlisted the nation’s top oncologists in a search for the cause and cure of her final illness, all the while comforted by her faith in God’s will and Christ’s promise. She died in Salt Lake City on December 27th, 2007, in the presence of her family, and left the impression that she had participated through sheer will in her own passing.
Kay is survived
by her son, Michael Morris, of Melbourne, Australia, and Michael’s wife Nicolette and their two children; Elisha, 9, and McKenzie, 7; brothers Jim Wetzel of Salt Lake City and David Wetzel of Denver; niece Elizabeth “Noel” Wetzel of Santa Cruz, CA, and nephews Richard Wetzel of Kansas City and Daniel Wetzel of Salt Lake City. Kay had a huge circle of dearly loved friends and family who will always love her and will never forget her, until they are rejoined with her once again in God’s paradise.
This what was in the local paper (Record serchlight, Redding, CA)
As you can tell she was very special. She was an angel on earth! My family and I miss her very much!
She even allowed my kids to call her “Mumpa” Which means Mum of Pop. A name her grand kids made up!
Truly a blessing!
Jodie