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A naturalist
With a green thumb, she has dozens of unusual houseplants. Her fasci- ? nation with the Monarch and swallowtail butterfly has her growing host: plants to breed butterflies.
The Monarch prefers the milk-
weed for a host plant and the swallowtail uses parsley. She and her daughter, Gretchen, put in a butterfly garden at St. Francis School so that the children could see the stages the butterfly goes through to maturity.
She also takes plants and eggs to the area schools for the children to watch all the stages from eggs to bugs to caterpillar and when the caterpillar turns inside out to form the crysallis and finally becomes the butterfly.
She had a crysallis on the verge of breaking free when I did the interview. She explained that you can take a butterfly when it comes out of the crysallis, fold its wings and place it in a sandwich bag and place it in the refrigerator to cool it down and then ship it to a school. It can stay in the refrigerator for three or four days and when it warms up, it will open up and fly. She has carried plants with the eggs on them or various stages to schools as far away as Baton Rouge.
' She went to teach at St. Martin?s and was then asked to begin an enrichment program at Louise S. Magee School for after-school children from kindergarten through sixth grade. In one week, she had 49 children, and the program included ballet, piano, sports and tutoring. She worked there for six or seven years and then retired with 25 years of teaching.
Giving the call
\ At night until the mid-70?s, Burton called square dancing regularly for
Daughter Priscilla is married to i Barry Morse and they live in Dallas where he is based as an American Airlines pilot. They have two children, Max and Mallory, 5 and 7 years of age. They are active on the swim, soccer and baseball team. Mallory collects American Girl dolls and has Addy, of the Civil War; Molly of the Forties; and Samantha of the Victorian period. She has the books with the history about each doll and her grandmother has made every dress, coat and outfit for each doll that is shown in the historical books about their era. She made a large trunk for all the clothes to hang in and a small trunk for Addy, a wooden bed for Molly and is making an iron bed for Samantha.
Last year on Mallory?s 7th birthday, she and her daughter staged a 1940?s party for Mallory and her 24 guests. They decorated like the ?40s and Kathleen made outfits for she, her daughter and Mallory. All the games that they played were of that era and she even made party poppers for the guests. Mallory?s teacher told Kathleen that the children learned more history from that party than from any book.
More background
Kathleen and Burton belong to the Pass Christian Yacht Club, the Metropolitan Dinner Club and the Gulf Coast Symphony. They like to travel and go to a friend?s place at Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., to New York for the stage plays, to Dallas to visit the children and to Houston. She and the daughters have enjoyed girl trips to Barbados and other places. Burton enjoys going duck hunting in Pearl River and in Louisiana and he likes to relax on their pier in the evening with his chocolate Labrador ?Coco.?
They have two cats, a Russian cat named Koshau (meaning cat) and a black part Persian named Yolanda Lucretia.
Burton is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church in the Pass and has served on the Vestry and now is an usher. Kathleen serves on the Vestry at St. Luke?s Episcopal Church in Gulfport. She is a dedicated historian and member of the Pass Christian and Hancock County Historian Society. She uses every opportunity to do research and often goes with her husband to Mobile, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Pascagoula, New Orleans to public and college libraries to do so.
Kathleen and Burton enjoy life and share that joy with those around them. There should be more people
Free-lance writer Ada Reid is grandmother of 12. She writes about seniors and seniors? events for The Sun Herald. You can write her In care of the paper at P.O. Box 4567, Biloxi, MS 39535-45^7.
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three clubs in New Orleans. They traveled all over the country for him to call and teach square dancing for 10 years. They even lived on a square dance ranch in St. Rose, La., and he was one of Chuck Goodman?s top callers.
Kathleen was involved in Scouts and Burton was a Scoutmaster. She taught Sunday School, worked at the Girl Scout camp and served on the flower committee for the Orleans Club in New Orleans.
She intended to take a rest when they moved to the Coast but taught Coast Episcopal.
They returned to Trinity Episcopal Church where they and two daughters had married. Then the pastor asked her to teach some Bible classes, give some book reviews and do adult literacy classes. She was also active in the Krewe of Nerieds and helped make costumes and build floats. She worked some with Marsha / Artique, an interior decorator.