Kathleen Marlowe

Kathleen Marlowe (Memaw, Nanny, Grandma, and GiGi) of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was called Home to Heaven on November 19, 2022, at the age of 69. Kathleen, who preferred to be called “Kathy”, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on March 4, 1953, the daughter of Herman V. Hausleiter and Joan (Phillips) Hausleiter. Kathy graduated from Raritan High School in Hazlet Township, New Jersey with the Class of 1971 (go Rockets!). She later studied Accounting and learned other valuable skills at Wright Business College and was the honor graduate of her class.

On February 1, 1975, Kathy married the love of her life, Jim Marlowe, in a lovely ceremony at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Union Beach, New Jersey. The couple were happily married for 47 years. Kathy went on to have a successful career at Spectro Wire and Cable, retiring as their Business Manager after 22 years of dedicated service to the company. Kathy was raised Catholic, and later in life became a Southern Baptist. She was a longtime and active member of the First Southern Baptist Church of Del City, Oklahoma, and was the Co-Director of her Sunday School class, the Awesome Servants. She loved organizing various mission service ministries at her church, providing meals for funerals, and giving gifts of appreciation to the teachers in her community.

Kathy was super sweet, faithful, highly intelligent, and generous with a humble heart and a true servant’s nature. While she wasn’t in the service herself, she was a beloved Air Force wife who selflessly moved her family 13 times in 21 years, including four states and two foreign countries, all while working jobs of her own and keeping her family secure in a warm, loving home, no matter where they happened to be. She was kind, loving, and understanding, but could be stern when she needed to be, never allowing herself to be taken advantage of. Sassy but proper, Kathy loved people, never judging anyone by their standing in life, always the first to stop and listen and offer a kind ear. She enjoyed crafting, crossword puzzles, and tending to her flower garden. She liked traveling, especially when it was to visit family, and she loved taking cruises and visiting Branson, Missouri to watch the shows. She adored watching movies on the Hallmark channel, especially the Christmas movies, and she enjoyed sports, always following OU Sooners and Florida Gators football, as well as the New York Giants.

Family though, is what Kathy lived for, alongside her church. She rejoiced in gatherings of family and friends, large or small, her home always open to those who needed a safe place to land. She adored shopping for, sending cards to, and visiting her family at any opportunity. The love and devotion she had for her family was inspirational to many. Kathy was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. She will be deeply missed.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Herman V. and Joan Hausleiter, one brother, Herman M. Hausleiter, her maternal grandmother, Helen Phillips, her paternal grandmother, Adeline Hausleiter, along with several aunts, a sister-in-law, Meriam Dumont, a daughter-in-law, Amber Marlowe, and many other family members waiting to greet her in Heaven.

Left to treasure her memory are her loving husband, Jim Marlowe, of the home; four children, Michele Spence and her fiancé, Christopher Morris, Christopher Marlowe, Susan Dewitt, and Joshua Marlowe and his wife, Niki; 13 grandchildren, and 5 great-grandchildren; two brothers, William Hausleiter and his wife, Nicole, and Jimmy Hausleiter; as well as a host of loving nieces, nephews, extended family, and friends.

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