[Vision2020] Pat

Wed Jun 4 14:53:56 PDT 2008

Dear Tom, Visionaries, Mayor Chaney, and Members of the Moscow City Council via Stephanie Kalasz, City Clerk,

Thank you, Tom, for bringing the passing of Pat Kraut to our collective attention. I hope Mayor Chaney and the CIty Council will mark her passing with a word of positive remembrance at an appropriate juncture in a public meeting soon. 

Her voice will be missed. I will miss her voice most assuredly. She and I did not see eye to eye on many things but we did on some... it is to her great credit and her big heart that she and I could share our pride, among other topics, in our children and their accomplishments... those Moscow High School products who are, as we speak, around the world, as I write. Her son, Larry, in Egypt, doing great things in education (if I remember correctly) and my son, Zach, in Tanzania this summer, putting the bad guys away in the UN High Commission prosecution of war crimes in Rwanda, as a second year law student from New York...   

I was very appreciative and impressed with her loyal and positive commitment to the Community Conversations (1st Mondays each month from June 2005 onwards to 2007) I organized during my last two years on the City Council.  I hope you will take time to look at this agenda note that was typical of the sessions she attended and contributed to with thought, spirit and zest,

God rest her soul.

Linda Pall
Moscow

>From Community Conversations:

"Bring Back the 'City with a Smile'" 

February, 2007

It is hard not to see and hear the hard, cold, sometimes abrasive, sometimes unkind manner in many examples of public debate and discussion in Moscow (nationally, too!). Is this positive? Does this further Moscow's interests? Does this advance the cause of those participating? Is there a way to disagree and debate heart-felt issues while remaining respectful of the others in the discussion? Are there some strategies one might consider in these communications, given how passionately each of us holds some of our opinions? Surely there is a way to have meaningful debate without caving into some 'smiley face/everything's swell' stereotype. Is there a civic ethic we could craft and share that would help us all to raise the level of honest, forthright, public dialogue?

We want your ideas, observations and opinions to test-drive. GROUND RULES: 

Begin at noon, order off the menu from University Inn...

All civil voices are welcome. Civility is "acting with decorum, respect, concern for others and kindness." P. Forni...

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Ivie 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:01 AM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Pat

  Pat was a frequent contributor to the viz.

  From the Lewiston Tribune

  Patricia (Pat) Kraut, 67, Moscow
  Wednesday, June 4, 2008

  Pat Kraut passed away Monday, June 2, 2008, in Moscow, after a quick battle with lupus. She was 67. 
  She was born April 6, 1941, in Spokane, and given the name Patricia Marie Cahill. Her parents were Richard and Edith Cahill. When she was 3 years old, she climbed up on a stool to look out the window and see her daddy coming home from work. Unfortunately it happened to be over the gas stove and it caught her dress on fire. She was quickly burned over 50 percent of her body and subsequently spent most of her childhood and teen years in Shriner's hospital in Spokane, having surgery after surgery. However, she was never one to complain. 
  She graduated from Rogers High School in Spokane in 1959 and spent time working different jobs in Spokane including, for a while, at the historic Davenport Hotel. In 1961, she married Daniel Kraut of Spokane and they were quickly off to Georgia, where Dan spent some time in the Army. While there she gave birth to their first child, Darren, and when their time in the military was done they came back to Spokane. Soon, Dan found work in Moscow doing sheet-metal construction and they moved. They then spent several years in Moscow, where they had their next three children, Larry, Richard and Karen. They then bought property on Moscow Mountain and built a house there, which meant they were now residents of Troy, where they spent the next several years. She began working for GTE where she was an old-fashioned telephone operator. They divorced there in 1978 and after a couple of years the property was sold and she moved the kids into the town of Troy, where the three boys graduated from high school. In 1983, GTE transferred her to the office in Coeur d'Alene, where she worked and lived until Karen graduated from high school. She then moved back to Moscow and spent some time working. She even went to Alaska one summer and worked in a fish cannery. She earned enough money to begin paying her own way to college at the University of Idaho and she ended up getting a degree in communications there. 
  During her time in Moscow, she became a member of the Moscow Nazarene Church and spent the last several years there as the custodian. She loved spending time with her grandkids (and helping Rich and Amy out all the time with baby-sitting). Pat, or Gram Gram as her grandkids called her, loved her kids and grandkids and was devoted to the Lord and the church. She was a strong person and will be greatly missed by her friends and family. 
  She leaves behind four children, Darren Kraut of Monroe, Wash., Larry and Priscilla Kraut of Cairo, Egypt, Rich and Amy Kraut of Walla Walla, and Chuck and Karen Brockway of Twin Falls; one brother, Michael and Joleen Cahill of Texas; two sisters, Becky Cahill of Portland, Ore., and Marylin Cahill of Spokane; and eight grandkids, as well as countless friends. She was and is greatly loved. She was preceded in death by both her parents. 
  A memorial service is scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday, June 6, at the Moscow Church of the Nazarene. Inurnment will be at a later date in Spokane. 
  The family suggests memorials to the Church of the Nazarene Missions Fund. 
  Short's Funeral Chapel of Moscow has been entrusted with arrangements. Online condolences can be left at www.shortsfuneralchapel.net.

  Tom & Liz Ivie

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