Katherine M. Morrison, 79, of Seneca, KS, died Wednesday, September 13, 2000, at the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital in Seneca. She was transferred there from Country View Estates where she had been a resident since June 1996. She was a diabetic and her death was due to an apparent heart attack.

She was born March 10, 1921 in Seneca, the daughter of Jacob and Minnie Von Mensell Krotzinger. When she was a child, the family moved to Marysville and she attended Marysville schools, graduating from Marysville High School in 1940. Katherine worked for her father in the Krotzinger Bakery in Seneca and continued to work there after her brother, Jacob Krotzinger, purchased the business. She later moved to St. Joseph, MO, where she worked as a nurses aide at Sisters Hospital and was employed as a waitress in several restaurants. She also took care of elderly people in their homes for several years.

On March 12, 1995, there was a fire in her apartment building and she and several other tenants lost everything. She moved back to Seneca and lived with her sister-in-law, Eva Krotzinger. Katherine moved into Terrace Heights Apartments in Seneca where she lived until her health made nursing home care necessary.

Survivors include her sister-in-law, Eva Krotzinger of Seneca and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Donald, Francis and Jacob Krotzinger; and two sisters, Norma Krotzinger and Dorothy Worley.

Graveside service will be 2 PM Monday, September 18, at the Seneca City Cemetery, followed by inurnment.

Memorial contributions may be given for the Country View Estates Activity Fund, and sent in care of the family.

Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca is handling arrangements.