March 18, 2021 at 8:38 p.m.
Katherine Barney
Katherine worked at Leaf River Telephone Company for 57 years from 1953 to 2010 serving as the president and CEO until her forced leave. She also worked for Highway Trailer, Parker Pen and Wisconsin Telephone Company (The Bell Company), and started with her husband the first laundromat and Antique & Collectables in Leaf River.
Katherine lived a full life enjoying traveling with her husband all over the U.S., loved Leo’s Navy Ship Reunions, playing piano, spending time on the lake at Hazelhurst/Minocqua, collecting antiques, and most of all being with friends and family.
Katherine is survived by her children: Diane Barney of Dodgeville, and Gene (Laura Stevens) Barney of Rockford, Ill.; grandchildren: Ashli (Nick) Horneij and Colton Barney both of Rockford, sister-in-law: Sally Robinson of Roscoe, Ill., many nieces and nephews, and many friends.
Katherine in her own words wrote to her eldest estranged daughter Maxine, “Nothing seems to make you happy. Especially since you said I wasn’t much of a mother to you and now in my death I am no longer.”
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband: Leo, brother: Max Robinson, brother and sister in law: David and Grace Barney.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 at 11 a.m. in Finch Funeral Home, 405 East Hitt, Mt. Morris, Ill., with Rev. Frank Lay officiating. Burial will be in Willwood Burial Park, Rockford, Ill. Visitation will be Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 from 9:30 a.m. until service time in Finch Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers memorials can be made to the Glaucoma Foundation, www.Glaucoma.org.
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