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KATHARINE "Kim" ISABELLE MIGEL AYCRIGG

Lake Oswego, OR, USA

December 19, 1921 - September 3, 2020

Dec 19, 1921 - Sep 3, 2020

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Doug Lockhart

In a recent conversation with a Clinton High School buddy, Kim was rated as the Coolest Mom Ever in Clinton, Iowa where we knew her in the 1970s. Its easy to see Kim's legacy in her amazing children. I am very sorry to have lost contact over the years, living so far away. This is a great loss for all of us. Our deepest condolences to the Aycrigg Family.

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Ally Hallmark

Caring for Kim was one of the greatest gifts I have been given. We never lived in the passed, or future it was always right in the present. Each day brought something more magical filled with laughs, and new smiles. Kim was a dreamer till the very last day, she was beyond compassionate and incredibly strong. She was and is a great inspiration to me. I will forever hold her dear in my heart, with the memories we created at Marys Woods. From being her housekeeper to switching over and going through the stages with her to becoming her caregiver. So thank you Kim, and to your wonderful family for giving me the chance to be there for you and apart of it all.

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Mike Moran

Writing on behalf of my mom in Iowa who would have spent considerable time with your mother during hers and your dad’s time with A.C. Nielsen. My father died in 1997 and had likely recruited Dick to come to Clinton much earlier. As a native New Englander, I wonder if there was a connection there that assured my dad of such a quality couple as Kim and Dick. Social issues cemented a long-time friendship between our mothers. I have written far too much but wanted to make sure that our gratitude was conveyed for both your parents. Again, my mom offers her condolences as do my brother and I. Mike Moran

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Bob Quint

Amy,
So sorry about your mom's passing.
Bob Quint

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Dana Peck

What wonderful memories from your parents, brothers, and sister! My parents felt the same way, whether it was on the tennis court, at dinners, or just being together. Jeff actually shaped my life-long career in renewable energy development. When we first met (Christmas in Iowa, circa 1975?), I was home from DC and went back inspired by his interest in what was then solar energy and is now renewables; even spent some time with him in Santa Fe (treated like a regular at the Pink Adobe, what a riot). So amazing to have relocated to the Pacific Northwest and stayed in even closer touch with Amy and then your mom. My mom, after she relocated to the area, was equally thrilled to be back in touch. Love and best wishes to you all! Dana

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Diane Allen

Although I did not know your mom but am so impressed with the life she lived. She should be the focus of Sunday Today Show called "A life well lived"!! She sounds like she was amazing. My sincere condolences to all in your family.

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Analeigh Hayes

2020, Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA

I was inspired by Kim's passion for lifelong learning. She and Amy taught me about peonies, and so much more.

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Rayna Jacobson

Dear Amy,
Much love, support and practice flowing you, and to your Mom in this special time. Be in touch when you are ready. Love, Rayna

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Megan Gondek

Hello my Aycrigg cousins. Mom told me how you all were with mom. That was wonderful. I was kind of daydreaming about the past. remembering times in Rhode Island, at Nanny and Grandpa's house. Remember the times visiting your family in Rowayton, many times, the big long porch to go into the house. I remember in the bedroom over the garage, having a red clock on the wall (cat) with eyes that went back and forth. I remember the many Thanksgivings at your house in Rowayton. I remember my trip to Europe with Kim and Dick and Amy, and then staying in Clinton for a week. We should all keep in touch on Facebook. Love to all. My prayers are with you. Love Cousin Megan

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DAVID AYCRIGG

Oohhh the memories Megan. Thank you. I avoid using Facebook as much as I can resist it, but I'm happy to ... Read more Oohhh the memories Megan. Thank you. I avoid using Facebook as much as I can resist it, but I'm happy to stay in touch there. ... Read more Oohhh the memories Megan. Thank you. I avoid using ... Read more

Achama George

I am grateful for Kim's presence at many family gatherings over the years - Thanksgiving, Sarita's birthdays, July 4. It was an honor and blessing to share time with her.

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Achama George

2010, Mosier, OR, USA

Kim and Amy cherry picking in Mosier 2010

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Mary Ellen Grace

My warmest condolences to you, Amy, and your siblings. My memories of KIM are seeing her smiling face at concerts that you attended together. How wonderful that you all could be with her during her transition. Much love...
Mary Ellen Grace

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Margaret S (Marge) Miles

Thinking of you all. She was my best friend at Carolina Meadows and I've missed her ever since she left. I did enjoy many good conversations with her over the years. What a special smart creative caring woman!!!

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Wendy McPhee

So sorry! I'm glad you could all be with her. My condolences to all of you.

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William Aycrigg

A caring note from Deva
Kim. Your twinkling eyes and friendly smile brings instant delight ! It's so easy to get you to turn it up a notch with a shared joy of simple pleasures of life. You have been such a good friend to many . Easily you spread your kindness I. This world. So glad our families melded . Crab and fondu Christmas dinners to many to count. Walking dogs and rocking babies afterward. Those babes have grown , feeling your love, support a long with , Amy's Kathies love. Thank you for your love,accepting attitude that have graced this world. I wish we had had bird walks.
You are small, mighty, smart generous and strong with a great since of adventure. Travel on my beloved knowing you will be missed and cherished. We will continue to share stories of you at our tables and at the end of our dog friends leashes with more walks and shared meals.

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Mitch Keller

Sincerest condolences to my old friend Bill and the extended Aycrigg family. Although I did not know Mrs. Aycrigg well, I clearly remember her from my Rowayton boyhood as someone who was always friendly, warm and kind. I know you will all miss her. Based on everything I've read here, her life was not just blessedly long but also rich and rewarding in all the most important ways. May we all be as fortunate.

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George Mallory

Bill was my classmate and good friend at Kent School in the 1960s. I had the occasion to spend the night at the Aycriggs during that era and developed a special friendship with Kim that lasted for years. I continued to visit the family after they moved to Iowa. Kim was loving and affirming and I needed that kind of caring desperately in those years. She was an amazing Christian woman and I miss her

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William Aycrigg

Heartfelt thanks George, good "old" friend Heartfelt thanks George, good "old" friend Heartfelt thanks George, good "old" friend

Margaret S (Marge) Miles

When my husband Lew and I moved to Carolina Meadows, we were so lucky to live across the street from Kim. She helped us adjust to retirement living and soon we became good friends. I certainly remember her love of bluebirds and we still enjoy them today. Kim and I enjoyed several very special trips to my beach condo at Salter Path, NC. She tried to educate me about the names of all the sea birds but my mind could not hold the names. Still today I think of her when I go to the beach. She loved the ocean and so do I. I'm grateful for the many phone visits we had after she moved to Oregon including my last phone visit thanks to Amy. Through the years I enjoyed getting to know Amy and Bill. Hugs to all of you as I know she will be missed. What a life! What a wonderful person!!!

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William Aycrigg

Note from Wendy McPhee:
I remember your mother as a truly charming and wonderful woman, even though I haven't probably seen her in 60 years or more. I have seen her photos as a young mother in our family albums. She was so beautiful! It's amazing to think she is so close by, but thanks to the virus, I won't be able to see her. I'm glad you are all able to be with her.
(By the way, the link didn't work for me.)
Give her my love and love to all of you,

Wendy

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William Aycrigg

KATHARINE ISABELLE MIGEL “KIM” AYCRIGG- A BRIEF “draft” CHRONOLOGY AND STORIES

Born December 19, 1921 to Margaret Dauchy Migel and Julius Adolphus Migel in Pelham, New York
Married to Richard H Aycrigg, August 8, 1945
Four children: William Anderson Aycrigg, David Hamilton Aycrigg, Jeffrey Hall Aycrigg & Amy Dauchy Aycrigg
Major Volunteer Contributions: civil rights, international peace, prevention of domestic violence, environment, Central America
Major hobbies/interests: birding, gardening, prayer, tennis, sailing, skiing, Spanish, knitting, custom-made Christmas cards
Affiliations: United Nations Association, Heifer Foundation, Doctors Without Borders

STORIES FROM PELHAM
• At the recently built “big house” in Pelham, New York (Ely or Wolf Street).
• Mom and her neighbor and friend Polly made hiding places and hid away valuable pieces of shiny mica stone
• Siwonoy Grade School walked from the big house
• Pelham High School for 2 years
• Kim attended Emma Willard for 2 years graduated class of 1939
STORIES FROM EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL
• Joined her cousin Amy, sister Marg and her best friend Polly who were already attending. When Mom heard that she was going to attend she went to tell Polly and in their excitement they jumped up and down on the bed and broke it
• Very strict, wore uniforms
• Only socializing was when the boys school glee club came to visit
• Graduated Emma Willard, Class of 1939
• Bicycle trip around Cape Cod with friend Penny from Haddonfield, NJ. (Dick was overseas.): trained with bicycles from Pelham staying at B&B’s along the way; no reservations. Considered pretty adventuresome. A little bundle on the back for limited clothing. A swizzle skirt that you hand washed in the sink and hung it around itself to dry
STORIES FROM SMITH COLLEGE
• Bachelor of Liberal Arts Degree, Class of 1943
• Social life really took off at Smith with friends from Cornell, Princeton. Hasty Arnold was the first serious beau from Greenwich
• First Employment: technical assistant in a medical research laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute, New York City

STORIES ABOUT MOM & DAD EARLY YEARS
• Married to Richard Aycrigg August 8, 1945 in Charlestown, Rhode Island in the Bailey’s Garden
• Lived briefly in Cambridge MA, with Dick’s parents in Darien Connecticut & in Greenwich, Connecticut
• Bill was born, Jan 30, 1948
• Bought their first house on Indian Spring Road, Rowayton, Connecticut and lived there from 1950 -1971
• David was born July 2, 1950
• Jeff was born May 29, 1952
• Amy was born Jan 4, 1955

STORIES FROM ROWAYTON
• Kim and the neighbor wives carpooled their husbands to the commuter train to New York City where they worked; they took turns driving the men to the station and then again picking them up in the evening
• The family had our cocker spaniel Chipper
• Bailey Beach in Rowayton was the family’s destination for swimming, tennis, Little League baseball and birthday parties
• Kim regularly played singles and mixed doubles with Dad while Dad played singles and men’s doubles with friend Algie Middleton. They hosted a special invited guest, Jackie Robinson
• Kim worked at the Norwalk Hospital laboratory
• She was Board member of the PTA and as a representative of the Radio Committee sold the District School Board and WNLK on the idea of in-school radio programs
• Kim served as VP of the Stamford Junior League, having volunteered on the Publicity Committee, Byram Well-Baby Clinic and at the Stamford Hospital Corridor Shop
• Kim was active in the United World Federalists
• Kim and Dick attended and were active at the United Church of Christ in Rowayton and subsequently at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Darien
• Kim developed long term friendship with Avery Brooke, Harriet Corrigan, Mike West and others
• Mom’s was dedicated to the flower garden in front and the vegetable garden in back; she harvested watercress from the brook behind the house
• The family took a few summer week-long cruises up Long Island Sound to Block Island Sound on a friend’s (the Bevier’s) 34-ft wooden sloop sleeping onboard in harbors along the way: Saybrook, New London. Kim was a master sailor having learned as a youngster on Ninegret Pond. She also was able to fix meals for all out of the sloops tiny galley
• Kim and Dick always got dressed up in their formal duds for the annual New Year’s Eve gathering at the Case’s home in Darien
• All the family gathered to celebrate Kim’s parents’ 50th wedding anniversary at the big house in Charleston, RI
• Kim cared for the family’s furry friends: the long-lived cocker Spaniel Chipper and Titia the Brittany Spaniel; also the painted turtles, white mice, parakeets, rabbits and guinea pigs
• The family spent summer vacations in Charlestown with Kim’s parents, her brothers and sisters and their children on Stumpy Point. Daily activities included family breakfasts, crabbing, competitive sailing, bird-watching, gardening, harvesting raspberries, wild berry picking, walks up to the “Round Road”, hearing and watching the loud navy planes practice “touch downs” on the tarmac at the adjacent airbase, boat rides in “the Dumphy” up the channel to Charlestown Beach, changing into bathing suits in the bath house, swimming and playing in the waves, basket picnic lunches, returning home for naps and an afternoon swim at “Deep Pond”. Special occasions were the annual Arnolda neighborhood scavenger hunt and fishing for Spanish mackerel and “blues” outside the breakwater in Block Island Sound.
• Mom’s dinner specials: Welsh Rarebit (not rabbit like the kids called it), meatloaf, leg of lamb, swordfish, fresh veggies from the garden
Mom wrote: “We lived a rather traditional suburban-commuter existence for 20 years in Rowayton. But the 60’s with 3 boys were not traditional. We all learned and grew through the experiences of civil rights marches and the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. She counseled Conscientious Objectors including her son Bill. A new job assignment took the 3 of us (Dick, our 15 yr. old daughter Amy and me) to Clinton, Iowa.

STORIES FROM CLINTON, IOWA
• Kim and Dick and 15 yr. old Amy moved to Clinton in 1971 as Dick took the position of VP and Director of Marketing Research with the Nielsen Corporation
• They resided in Clinton, Iowa 1972-1992
• Kim and Dick attended and were active at Grace Episcopal Church
• Kim completed her Masters in Social Work, University of Iowa, 1971. For her final project for graduation from the Master’s Program she co-authored a Handbook: A Training Program for Advocates of Battered Women
• 1978-1989 Kim Aycrigg was selected as the first director of the new all-volunteer Gateway YWCA Women’s Resource Center in Clinton which she helped start with a $15,000 grant to provide a shelter and counseling services for battered women.
• Kim was employed as a counselor at the Clinton Mental Health Center
• “If I Want to, I Can”, Kim’s presentation topic with many Clinton civic, community and professional groups
• A big, bright yellow poster on the wall in Kim’s study stated “Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Life”
• She received the 981 Clinton County Bar Association’s annual Liberty Bell Award on behalf of the Women’s Resource Center
• 1987 Kim was recognized as “Women of Action” by the YWCA for “her concern for the development of women to their fullest potential”
• Kim was a library volunteer in 1988 with Project Knowledge, , Mount St. Clare College, Clinton
• Son Jeff organized Kim and Dick’s 50th 4-day wedding anniversary weekend attended by all the family and many, many friends in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• 1991 Kim served as Coordinator of the Office of Peace and Justice at Mount Saint Clare College in Clinton where she coordinated efforts to combat racism throughout the congregation and community
• Kim and Dick spent Christmases with family in Clinton, Land O’ Lakes, Portland and New Zealand
• Traveled with Dick: a Rhine River Cruise, Wales, Peru, France, Mexico; many birding trips in Iowa and with Amy in Oregon; also traveled with the Aycrigg family to Cartagena, Colombia, also to New Zealand and with a United Nations Peace Group to Nicaragua

STORIES FROM NORTH CAROLINA
• On a 1993 road trip between Florida and Clinton Kim and Dick stopped to visit friends living at Fearington Village, Pittsboro, North Carolina. They fell in love with the community and within 6 months had sold their Clinton home and moved to Fearrington.
• They actively participated at Saint Bartholomew Episcopal Church
• Kim and Dick moved up the road to Carolina Meadows (a Continuing Care Retirement Community) in Chapel Hill in 1993
• Kim made several close friends and participated in the United Nations Association, the local Democratic Club, continued her birding expeditions and she and Dick attended theatre, musical and cultural events at Duke and UNC
• Kim became an expert at attracting, housing and feeding her bluebirds
• Kim and Dick were actively involved in son Jeff’s life course with multiple myeloma
• Dick died on July 30, 2006 after a couple years of intermittent care at home and an extended stay in skilled care

STORIES FROM OREGON
Resides at Mary’s Woods, Lake Oswego, Oregon 2009 – present
Mom made some really good friends on her Cere hallway, Patti Hill, Thelma and Gordon and her special next door neighbor Ellie Rooney.
She was dedicated to one of her favorite activities, playing with the chimes choir which practiced every Monday at 10AM which was no small feat as Mom was not an early riser in her later years. She really enjoyed “sleeping in.”
Many, many birding and flower trips with daughter Amy and friends!!!!

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William Aycrigg

Rowayton CT

Family neighbors and friends (Kim took the picture)

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Amy Aycrigg

2010, Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat and Conference Center, Breitenbush Road Southeast, Detroit, OR, USA

Kim, Kathy and Amy enjoying the Silent Pool during an annual New Years Celebration

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