ALAMOSA — A celebration of life will be held on Sept. 21 for Kathy Park Woolbert, a woman well known and much beloved in the Alamosa community.
Kathy passed away at 5:30 p.m. on April 8, 2024, at home in her own bed with her best friend, partner, collaborator, soulmate and husband, Henry, at her side. It was the day of the solar eclipse, which somehow seems so fitting.
“Kathy Park has gone over to the other side to join the herd,” says Henry. “Horses were such a part of her life – this is how Kathy saw her passing.”
As he describes the celebration of her life, “We will be gathering to share some of our favorite memories, our stories, to laugh, to cry and remember a wonderful person who will be greatly missed.”
To those who knew her, Kathy was truly an extraordinary human being. And “those who knew her,” included a far reaching, diverse circle of friends, colleagues and students as Kathy was imbued with an inordinate number of talents, skills, accomplishments and interests.
To those who knew her as an artist, Kathy was gifted with a truly remarkable ability to reveal the most powerful figures, shapes, animals and people hidden deep within a raw block of stone or wood. Her paintings were so astonishingly original that her work was immediately recognized as hers because of the way the world was portrayed.
As a writer, she could make people think, laugh, feel and ponder the mysteries of life within one piece of work.
As a teacher, she both motivated and guided people incarcerated in prisons around the country to explore their own thoughts and experiences and revelations and discover their own voices in storytelling.
As an Aikido instructor, she taught principles both philosophical and physical, applying what she had learned to even the most difficult situations once she was discovered to have cancer.
And to those horses who were such a fundamentally important part of her life, she was, as Henry says, truly “one of the herd.”
Even with all of this said, there is still so much to remember and to celebrate and to honor about Kathy Park Woolbert, which Henry warmly invites all who knew her to do.
The celebration of life will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Woolbert Home and Dreamworks Studio, 13201 Charisma Trail, Alamosa. Live music and refreshments will be provided.
Henry is requesting people to RSVP by Sept. 15 by calling 719-589-2897.
