GAMBLE, Katherine Marguerite

Today's News-Herald, Lake Havasu City, Arizona Published Monday, February 25, 2008 Kathryn Marguerite Nicholson Gamble Mar. 18, 1913 - Feb. 21, 2008 Kaye Gamble was born in Boise, Idaho on March 18, 1913. She was the second child of early pioneers of the west. Her father, Charles Nicholson, immigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1894, at age 15, and her mother, Kate Sanderson, was born in Fort Boise in 1880. Kaye graduated from Boise High School, along with her life-long friend, Nina Fink; then during the Great Depression, she attended the University of Idaho for a year, where she pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma. Kay married Tom Gamble on Nov. 6, 1934. They raised three children, Lex, Chuck and Kristin, who were all born in Boise. Kaye, Tom and family moved to Spokane, Wash., in 1946. There, while she devoted full time to being a loving spouse and mother, she was also very active in her community. She was elected president of the Junior League of Spokane, and served as president of the Guild of St. John’s Cathedral. In 1957, the family moved to Littleton, Colo., where Tom continued to build his career in the lumber business and Kaye continued to be active in the community and served as mentor to many. In 1979, Kaye and Tom retired and moved to Lake Havasu City, where Kaye became a member of the P.E.O., a national women’s service organization. At that time they also began spending summers with family and friends in Hudson, N.Y. She moved to Hudson permanently in 2003. She loved the many friends she made in Hudson and developed a particular affection for the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse. Kaye is the proud grandmother of seven grandchildren, Scott, Deborah, Park, Karen, Chase, Alex, and Robert; and four great grandchildren, Charles Mitchell, Naomi, Oscar and Ruth. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society for the Foundation Restoration Fund, P.O. Box 145, Athens, N.Y., 12015. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday a t the Reformed Dutch Church in Claverack, N.Y. Arrangements were entrusted to Bates and Anderson – Redmond and Keeler Funeral Home in New York.