The busy scissors of longtime Napa hairstylist Kathleen Ortiz have been forced into retirement, to the chagrin of both Ortiz and the many heads she regularly coiffed.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions for hair salons and a health crisis, Ortiz had to close her longtime business Kathleenâs Hairstyles at 2467 Solano Ave.
In late November, doctors discovered she had not one but two inoperable brain tumors.
âItâs pretty unexpected,â said her daughter Jodi Ortiz. âAnd sudden.â
Jodi said her mother has been a hairdresser for 57 years. She learned her trade while still in high school. Traditional school academics were not her thing, said Jodi about her mother. Nothing kept her attention until she started learning how to cut hair.