KATHRYN UPTON

Kathryn Upton, 100, formerly of Liberty Center, died Feb. 28, 2007, in the Gllead Elder Care Home in Berrien Springs, MI.

She was born Feb. 24, 1907, in McKamie AR, her father died when she was six months old and the famlly moved Toledo. Her mother was unable to raise the family of five, and foster parents were arranged for three of the children. Mrs. Upton was raised by Henry and Vinnie Hasemeier of Liberty Center, as Katie Hasemeier. She married Arthur Haughey on Sept. 3, 1926, in Rockford IL and he died in 1981.

Mrs. Upton attended Liberty Center Schools and transferred her senior year to Mount Vernon Academy, Mt. Vernon. She was a secretary to the vice-president of Burdick Corp, a Milton Company, retiring in 1972.

In 1978, she and her husband moved to the Hasemeier Farm. Mrs. Upton was a member of the Defiance Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Surviving are her daughter, Adell Claypool, of Port Charlotte, FL; two grandsons; and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son, Allen.