Kathryn Elizabeth Miley Rinderknecht

Kathryn Elizabeth Miley Rinderknecht, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, (89), died Saturday, July 7, 2007. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 53 years, Joseph Edward Rinderknecht, a Toledo attorney. The daughter of The Rev. Dr. George Walter Miley and Mrs. Rosanna Troup Miley, she was born in Sherrodsville, Ohio, on September 13, 1917. She lived in Toledo for most of her life, moving from her home on Sagamore Road to Pemberville, Ohio in 2000 andfrom there to Upper Sandusky in 2002. A 1934 graduate of Thomas A. DeVilbiss High School, Toledo, Mrs. Rinderknecht graduated in 1938 from Wittenberg College in Springfield; she attended Bliss Business College in Columbus and earned a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature from theUniversity of Toledo. She was baptized in Zion Lutheran Church, one of the congregations in her father's four point parish in Sherrodsville, Ohio; confirmed and married by her father at Augsburg Evangelical Lutheran Church, Toledo, where he was the pastor. She has alsobeen a member of St. Luke's, Hope and Our Savior Lutheran Churches of Toledo and of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Upper Sandusky. For three years prior to her marriage she taught English at Trenton Junior High and High School in Trenton, Ohio. While her husband served in the army during WWII, she worked at the War Chest in Columbus, and later, in Temple, Texas for theLutheran Service Center serving soldiers from Camp Hood where her husband was a Master Sargeant. A teacher of English language, developmental reading and literature, Mrs. Rinderknecht was employed at Jefferson Junior High in the Washington Local School district, Toledo, for fourteen years. After she retired from teaching, she served as a legalsecretary to her husband, until his retirement in 1991. She gave book reviews and talks to churches as well as social and literary clubs around the Toledo Metropolitan area. She was a member of a book review group of the American Association ofUniversity Women. Mrs. Rinderknecht is survived by three sons, one daughter and eight grandchildren: her sons are: David and Linda, of Upper Sandusky; Edward and Karen Wells, of Loraine; and the Rev. Dr. Joseph and Gail, of Shaker Heights. Her daughter, Ann Yeago,lives in Columbia, South Carolina. Her granddaughters are Thereasa Rinderknecht of Cornelia, Georgia; Carrie Rinderknecht of San Francisco; and Katharine Yeago of Columbia, South Carolina. Her grandsons are: Dr. Seth Rinderknecht and his wife, Laura, of Fishers, Indiana; EdwardRinderknecht and his wife Shawn of Atlanta, Georgia; Jakob Rinderknecht, now Brother Peregrine, O.S.B. of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota; Luke Rinderknecht and his fiancé Annika Sheaff of Katonah, New York and Litchfield, CT; and HansRinderknecht of Princeton, New Jersey. Mrs. Rinderknecht is also survived by Elizabeth Windsor Rinderknecht, of Cornelia, Georgia, the mother of her grandchildren, Thereasa and Edward; and Dr. David S. Yeago, of Columbia, SC, the father of hergranddaughter Katharine, and a Great Grandson Edward Rinderknecht son of Edward & Shawn. Mrs. Rinderknecht's sister, Martha Ellen Miley Rajala, lives in Miamisburg, Ohio. She also is survived by two nieces Joan Purdon and Lynn Schultz and one nephew, Arne Rajala. Visitation will be held at the Bringman-Clark Funeral Home, 226 East Wyandot Avenue in Upper Sandusky from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday evening, July 10. In thanksgiving to God for her life, her funeral will be held at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Upper Sandusky,on Wednesday, July 11 at 10:30a.m., with Pastor Henry Seibert and The Rev. Dr. Kenneth H. Sauer, Bishop, retired, preaching. Burial will follow at Toledo Memorial Park in Sylvania, Ohio at 1:30PM. The family invites friends to join them for a lightmeal after the burial in the Fellowship Hall of The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, Toledo. Honoring her wishes, the family asks that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to any of the following: Augsburg Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1342 Sylvania Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43612; to St. Paul Lutheran Church, 318 W. Wyandot Avenue, UpperSandusky, Ohio 43351; to the Luther Home of Mercy, 5810 North Main Street, Williston, Ohio 43468; or to The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, 2820 West Alexis Road, Toledo, 43613.