From the Family Table
KATHY’S PUMPKIN
BREAD
Marilyn Smith
O
ur Family Would Look Forward to This Gift
Every Year!
Kathy Pearce Watson was an extraordinary
person. She was a social worker in our home town,
but best of all, she was a dear friend and the wife of
a dear friend. Her husband and mine were buddies
in the house painting business and all-around
crazy guys, especially when they were together.
My husband would tease Kathy about being a
social worker and accuse her of “psychoanalyzing”
him. Her husband would agree, I’m sure, that my
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husband could use the help! You just never knew
what they were going to do or say next!
Each year Kathy and her husband, along with their
daughter, Shannon, would bake these wonderful
gifts of pumpkin bread near the holidays and take
them to many people in the area. It was so good;
it seemed to be more of a cake than a bread. The
bread would be baked in a round pumpkin can, and
so when cut, it was a round slice.
Sadly, we lost Kathy to ovarian cancer. Before
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