From Abu and Cecelia Abarry, friends from 1970s:
I first met Kathryn in the Spring of 1973 when I attended their wedding in Ghana. I had met Oscar the previous year through my late cousin whom he had helped to purchase a ticket to the US. But I came to know them better when I later arrived in the States and stayed temporarily with them in their grand home in Buffalo, New York.
The whole family, Oscar and Kathryn, Kathryn's mother, Mrs. Irene Weibel (affectionately called Meme), Annamaria, Clifford, Lili, and Ariana welcomed me, and later my wife, Cecelia, with affection, respect and generosity. We were privileged and honored later to meet the new lovely additions to the family too, Mary Laura and Julia.
Throughout our stay with the family, we were impressed by Kathryn's and Oscar's example of devotion to family, intellectual pursuits, loyalty, and commitment to fair play and interracial harmony and hard work. Meme, my adopted American mother, and the older children of the family, helped tremendously to make my transition from African life to the American way of life smooth, educative, adventurous, and pleasurable. This took place mostly during a whole year that I was left with them in Buffalo while Oscar and Kathryn pursued academic assignments in Africa.
For these and many other things, Cecelia and I remain eternally grateful. to the whole family.
Kathryn was a beautiful, brilliant, generous and accomplished lady.
Everywhere she sojourned, she helped to leave the place much better than she found it.
Surely she will be missed.
May she rest in peace.
Profs. Abu and Cecelia Nana Abarry
Temple University, Philadelphia