Surprise 90th birthday party

Kathryn Atkinson was surprised with a birthday cake honoring her 90th birthday at last week's meeting of the Ozark County Volunteer Library's board of directors. She will celebrate her actual birthday Thursday, July 18. A California native and Navy veteran, Kathryn worked as a human resources manager in Idaho and Washington State before retiring and moving to the Pontiac-Price Place area in the late 1990s to live with her widowed mother. She joined the library's volunteer staff in 2001 and became board president in 2004. She oversaw several updates and improvements before stepping down from the library board presidency in 2021, the same year she was named Barney Douglas Ozark County Citizen of the Year Award by the Gainesville Lions Club. Kathy is pictured above with, from left, current library board president Joanne Krupp, library volunteer Janice Culp, and her daughter, Lisa Atkinson, right. Kathy's other daughter, Leslie Burns, took the photo; Kathy also has a son, James Atkinson.

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