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Kathryne Marie “Kaye” McCarty Johnson

Birth: 11 Nov 1945
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Death: 27 Nov 2016 (aged 71)
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Burial: Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown Add to Map
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Maintained by: Malita
Originally Created by: Donna Bloxton
Added: Nov 28, 2016
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173292488/kathryne_marie-johnson: accessed ), memorial page for Kathryne Marie “Kaye” McCarty Johnson (11 Nov 1945–27 Nov 2016), Find a Grave Memorial ID 173292488; Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown; Maintained by Malita (contributor 50493639).

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Miss Kaye McCarty's 1963 Senior Class Portrait, Page High School, Page, Arizona -- "America's Last Frontier".

We bought these matching identical red suits, and she wrote on the back of her photo to me, "Bloxton, aren't we fabulous?!" We had so much clean fun together--neither one of us smoked or drank, and we both had a passion for dancing. We put together a modern jazz routine to a "Breakfast at Tiffany's" tune from the movie soundtrack (she wanted to change her name to "Holly Golightly"--she was so enamored of that film.) Among other venues, we performed the routine for the Page square dance club. When they paid us a small honorarium, Kaye was so excited, because we were then "professionals!"
I tried to perform the routine alone in the first Miss Page Contest (first leg of Miss Arizona/Miss America Contests), but my mind went blank in the middle of the routine. Kaye was in the audience and told me that her mind went blank about what step came next at the exact same time!

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Kaye's mom & dad purchased a duplex at address below after Kaye graduated from high school. More recently, a door was installed between the duplexes so that they were accessible as one unit, where Kaye lived until her death at: 1638 E. Indianola Avenue, Avenel Subdivision, Phoenix, AZ. Former addresses in the Phoenix area:
13816 N. 103rd Avenue, Sun City, AZ
(June 2000 - Sept 2008);
1712 W. Whitton Avenue, Phoenix, AZ
(May 2000 - July 2001);
1234 E. Vista Avenue, Phoenix, AZ (July 2001)

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Kaye's 60th birthday portrait.

Soon after this photo was taken, she learned that she wasn't an only child but had a half-brother and two half-sisters born to her father.
Kaye, Van, and their four children lived in California for a number of years, too.
Van says that Kaye was an extremely good listener and that she was a professional learner--that she had what he calls a learning career. Van was almost 16 when Kaye met him. He was 17 when she married Jerry. Van married Kaye in 1967 when he was 19. He was drafted into the Army in 1966 when he turned 18 and was stationed in Monterey, California. After Basic Training and AIT, he had a week before he was shipped to Vietnam for a year. They drove to Las Vegas, Nevada and were married there during that week. He was in the Army for three years total.

Kaye wanted spiritual leadership from her husband, and she felt like she got that from her husband, Richard, who struggled for 15 years with the decision whether to be a Catholic priest or to marry Kaye. Kaye converted from her Southern Baptist upbringing to Catholicism when she met Richard. Kaye's mother, Nellie Belle McCarty, followed Kaye's example and also converted before she died.

Van said that Rick had a gift of gab; he was charming and very religious. He was very well educated. When he married Kaye, he was a Business Lawyer; later on, he was a Real Estate Agent, then they had a house moving business.

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Kaye (McCarty) Appleget Tingstrom Johnson (wearing a wig as she battled stage 4 cancer that took her life) with her children, Lance Tingstrom, (NAU) Northern Arizona University, College — Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Graduate in December 2015, & Skye Silverwing Tingstrom, who quit her job to become Kaye's full time caregiver.

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Kaye McCarty '63 (a PHS Junior here in 1962)
"bossing" her Speech Class classmates
(but they all seem happy about it).

Four of her classmates and her teacher here are also deceased; hopefully they were there as part of her welcoming committee at the Gates of Pearl to Heaven:

Dean Lasson (seated) '62,
Norma Roberson (Mrs. Miles White) '62
(behind Dean in black sweater).
Behind Kaye on right:
Judy McDonald Mowbray '62
Linda Lee Baker Crane '62
& Teacher Bruce Hart,
all predeceased Kaye...

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