July 20, 1941 â November 11, 2020
Kathie Gayle Merrick, 79, passed away on Nov. 11, 2020, at Modesto Memorial Center in Modesto, from severe head injuries she suffered as the result of a fall in her home on Wednesday morning, Nov. 4, 2020.
Funeral services were held in the parking lot behind the Ward Meeting House of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 221 Church Hill Street in San Andreas, CA 95249, at 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 5, 2020.
Kathie Gayle Denton was born on July 20, 1941, in Hayward to Henry Jackson âJackâ Denton and Virginia Trina Gore Denton, and was raised in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. Kathie learned how to cook from her mother. Her mother also taught her how to sew, and she began to make some of her own clothes when she was a teenager.