Kathryn Sue (Speak) Gansz passed away January 3, 2022. Kathy was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on January 22, 1938 to Una Valerie Coker Cerba, then married to Anthony Brady Speak; Una later married George W. Artman, who was a kind and loving father to Kathy and her siblings until his death in 1960. Kathy graduated from Shawnee High School in 1955 and from OBU in 1960 as a Registered Nurse. She married Navy Lieutenant Edward Daniel Gansz in1964.
In 2011, Kathy was diagnosed with 4thstage cancer, given a medical diagnosis of six months to live, and placed on home hospice care. Six months later, she was cancer free and had a testimony of God’s miraculous intervention and healing that she joyfully shared whenever given the opportunity.
Kathy was preceded in death by her infant daughter, Gretchen Brooke Gansz; her mother, Una Valerie Coker Cerba; her aunt Kathryn Speak McArthur; her brothers, William (Bill) Brady Speak and Barry Claude Speak; her sisters Betty Brown Pitt Russell, June Brown Ventura, and Amaryllis (Amy) Brown Miller; her nieces Valerie Miller Darling and Patricia (Patt) Pitt Rosenbaum; and her nephew Matthew George Miller.
Surviving are her husband, Edward Daniel Gansz; daughter, Alicia Karen Gansz; sister, Mary Ann Speak Lanier Wickline; sisters- in-law, Ruth Ann Gansz Schrott and Jane Karintie Speak; nephews William (Bill) Pitt, Randy Rosenbaum, Robert (Bobby) Miller, Jr., Mark Lanier, David Speak, Mark Speak, Jon Speak, Carl Schrott, and Greg Schrott; nieces Betty Lee Pitt Robertson, Laura Ventura Henderson, Toni Marie Ventura Bryce, Brenda Miller Karns, Cindy Lanier Nielsen, Melanie Ann Lanier, and Heidi Schrott Hawkings as well as many beloved cousins, great-nephews, and great-nieces.
Services will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, September 24, 2022, at the New Hope Baptist Church, west of Tecumseh.
