Birth date: Jan 30, 1957 Death date: Apr 19, 2026
Kathy Layne Shockley was born January 30, 1957 in Springfield, Missouri, to M.C. and Barbara (Helsley) Coday, and went to be with her Savior, Sunday, April 19, 2026. She was sixty-nine years, two months and twenty days of age. Kat Read Obituary
Susan Dugger lit a candle in memory of Kathy Shockley (Lebanon)
Helped with making Kettle Corn and attended Christmas dinner with her son Ryan and her friend Jim. She loved with all her heart. Her family and her dog. She made you feel special just by talking to her.
We were cheerleaders together in high school. Sometimes if we had a late game or an away game I would spend the night at her house.
She was always so much fun and full of laughs. She truly lit up a room.
I went to Hartville High school with Kathy but didn' become close friends with her until we both graduated and lived in Lebanon. She had a little trailer house and one of my favorite memories was our time spent there. She was staying with her dad at the hospital for a few days and she asked me to stay at her trailer to keep the wood stove going. I did, and she called me a day or two into my stay, to tell me she forgot to tell me she had a pet gerbil and would I feed it. It was in a big glass aquarium with a screen over it, and it was GONE!! MY ONE fear in the entire world was (and still is) a mouse or rat. I have always said I would rather find a dead human in my house than a mouse, living or dead. I am that scared....and a gerbil was just another name for a mouse to me. But I loved Kathy as my best friend, and I had to find and save her gerbil. I crawled around that trailer looking under and inside everything, and when I was peaking in one of the kitchen cabinets, I saw two beady little eyes looking back at me. I took a plastic pitcher and scooped that rodent up then ran as fast as I could and dumped it back in it's aquarium then put something on the screen to prevent it from getting out again. I never told Kathy until much later, but I told her the gerbil was fed and doing well. Kathy has always been one of the best people I have ever known, and she will be missed terribly by so many. But I will see her again one day.
Kathy was my mother-in-law. She hosted our wedding at her house. And she was adamant Charlie couldn’t see me the day of our wedding. She saw Charlie coming so she yelled “ RUN LINDSEY RUN!!! Don’t let him see you!!!
