Kathryn A. Zurbuchen
Kathryn A. Zurbuchen – Kay of Billings Montana Died April 16, 2019, at Riverstone Health Hospice Home of congestive heart failure. Mom was born the 12th of 13 children of Frederick Nipple and Edith Tracy on the family farm in Rosebud County on February 28, 1919. Upon graduating Forsyth High School she went to Beauty School and worked at Dorothy’s Beauty Shop in Forsyth, MT. In 1944 she enlisted in the US Navy serving until 1946. She came back to Billings MT and worked at the Morrison Eye Clinic as a bookkeeper until 1948. On May 3, 1947 she Married Alpheus W. Zurbuchen, together they enjoyed the fellowship of Masonic affiliations, and raised 2 boys. She went back to work in 1964 as cosmetologist and worked at St. Johns nursing home until 1967. Upon Al’s death in 1977 she went back to the Morrison Eye Clinic until 1993.
