Kathleen (Kay) Marie Parley passed away on May 22, 2025, at the age of 102.
Graveside Service will be held on Wednesday, July 16, 202,5 at 2:00 p.m. in the Moffat Cemetery, Moffat, Saskatchewan. A picnic will follow in the Moffat church grounds. Please bring a lawn chair and share your memories of Kay.
Kay wrote for numerous newspapers, magazines and nursing and psychiatry journals, including the Western Producer, Moosomin World-Spectator, and Indian Head-Wolseley News. Her books included: Lady with a Lantern, Inside the Mental, The Human Touch, Flash-in-the-Sky, The Sixth Age, The Grass People, The Christmas Story and a collection of essays published in 2024, One Woman's Century.
Kay was a founding member of the SWG and has remained a Guild member ever since. "It's where the writers are. Why would I want to be somewhere else?" (Freelance Magazine, Vol. 55, No. 1)
(photo credit: Judith Silverthorne)