- Date Of Birth: July 16, 1926
- Date Of Death: October 21, 2018
- State: Idaho
Twin Falls
Katherine “Kay” Anne Wheeler Koch, 92, of Twin Falls passed away Sunday evening, October 21, 2018 at Bridgeview Estates in Twin Falls.
Kay was born July 16, 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Charles Leslie and Alma M. Wheeler. She graduated from Granite High School in 1944 and attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri which was then a girls’ junior college. She loved her two years thee and met girls from all over the United States. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1948 where she was affiliated with Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
On October 20, 1948 she married William “Bill” Koch. He worked for Standard Oil Company of California and they were transferred to Twin Falls, Idaho in 1953. In 1959, he bought Self Manufacturing Co. with is partner, LaVear Thornock. They later changed the name to K&T Steel which is still in business today.
They had two sons, William W. and James Robert (deceased), and a daughter, Jan.
Kay was active in the children’s school as a room mother and leader of a Cub Scout Troop and a Girls’ Campfire group. She was a charter member of Chapter BE in the P.E.O.
