Kathryn 'Katie' (Auchey) Potts

YORK- Kathryn “Katie” (Auchey) Potts, 87, of Springettsbury Township passed away on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at York Hospital. A Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at Heffner Funeral Chapel & Crematory, Inc., 1551 Kenneth Rd. in York, with a visitation from 1-2p.m. Pastor Brenda Killion will be officiating at the service. Mrs. Potts was born in Spring Grove on January 21, 1925, the daughter of the late Samuel and Katie (Harbold) Auchey. She retired from York Hospital where she had worked in the Pathology Department’s Chemistry Laboratory for 30 years. Mrs. Potts was a 1942 graduate of Spring Grove High School. She loved family times and her interests included bird watching, rug hooking, reading and she practiced yoga for ten years. Mrs. Potts leaves five children, Steven Potts and his wife Kimberly, Susan O’Keefe and her husband Tony Williams, Christine Curran and her husband Jerry, Jeremy Potts and his wife Deb, and Lisa Stracar and her husband Ed; 12 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren; and three sisters, Ruby Lingg, Jean Sterner, and Betty Hoke. In lieu of flowers, Mrs. Potts asks you to do a kind deed and think of her.