Kathyleen Joy Werner, 86, of Redfield, SD, died Saturday, July 24, 2010 at Eastern Star Home in Redfield. Her funeral will be Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. at First Congregational UCC Church in Redfield. Reverend Tim Fugman will officiate. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery. Reverend Tim Fugman will officiate. Visitation will be Tuesday from 1-8:00 p.m. at Thelen Funeral Home in Redfield. www.thelenfuneralhome.com

Kathyleen Joy Belau was born April 4, 1924 on the family farm near Miranda, SD to William and Joyce (Seibert) Belau. She attended Gaffney and Sievers Country Schools and Rockham High School. She married Roy A. Werner of Rockham at the Miranda Methodist Church. They farmed near Rockham and had two sons LeRoy and James. LeRoy died at the age of nine due to brain cancer.

Kathyleen was a member of the Wheaton Church for many years before she moved to Redfield and joined the First Congregational church. Her faith has always been an important part of her life and she recalls her mother reading from the bible to the family every morning at breakfast.

She enjoyed collecting pretty stones, stamps and gardening.

Kathyleen is survived by her son James of Rockham and her granddaughter Jamie.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Roy in 1994, her son LeRoy in 1970, her brothers Wilfred, Gordon and Lawrence and her sister Marguerite Grottke.