{"id":2334,"date":"2017-08-28T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k6bj.org\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2022-03-15T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T22:50:47","slug":"kathleen-mcquilling-ki6aie-sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/2334","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen McQuilling, KI6AIE SK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathleen \u00a0McQuilling, KI6AIE SK<\/h4>\n

Kathleen Marian McQuilling
\nJanuary 15th, 1947 – August 21st, 2017
\n\"ScreenKathleen McQuilling, 70, of Santa Cruz, California, passed away Monday August 21st, 2017 in Santa Cruz.\u00a0Kathleen was born in Seattle, Washington to Donald W. and Carol F. McQuilling, and was the youngest of four\u00a0children. The family moved to Berkeley, California during her first year. She was a graduate of Berkeley High\u00a0School. She had two older brothers, Norman K. and David S. McQuilling, and is survived by her sister Anne C.\u00a0McCord, and her son, Brian Gromme, born in 1964. Other surviving members of her family are nephews Beorn\u00a0Whetstone and Nila Cusimano, niece Jennifer Towhee Chester, great-nephew Dustin Chester and great-niece\u00a0Roxanne Chester.<\/p>\n

She was a lifelong musician, having started as a child prodigy on the cello at age 3. Her first public performance\u00a0of classical music was a duet at the age of four, along with her sister, Anne, six, who played the violin.\u00a0Kathleen\u2019s first cello was a modified viola with a peg added to the bottom. The group later added a little girl\u00a0who played the piano. It was soon noted that she had recognition of perfect pitch. One of her observations was\u00a0that the most prevalent tone in the environment was B flat.<\/p>\n

Kathleen began reading at age three and was reading novels at age 5. She skipped the early grades in school and\u00a0started school in the 2nd grade. Her IQ at the time was tested at 162.\u00a0Kathleen became proficient with all keyboard and string instruments: Harpsichord, piano, violin, fiddle, guitar,\u00a0banjo, and cello to name just a few. She was also a dynamic singer and sang in multiple bands during her\u00a0lifetime. She loved to do karaoke in bars and in her 60s sang professionally with the Red Malone Quartet in\u00a0Santa Cruz and surrounding areas. She was a member of the Jazz Society of Santa Cruz and secretary of the\u00a0Coast Musicians Club.\u00a0Kathleen loved folk music. Her favorite songs were “Losin is an Easy Game” and “Keep on the Sunny Side.”\u00a0Jazz was her second favorite genre and she sang jazz songs in her karaoke sessions and with the Red Malone\u00a0Quartet.\u00a0She worked for several schools and colleges, one of the first jobs being as secretary at Merritt Collage in West\u00a0Oakland, famous for being the home of the Black Panthers. While at Merritt College, she studied classical\u00a0guitar with De La Torre. She had a beautiful hand made guitar, which of course, had beautiful resonating tone\u00a0quality.<\/p>\n

She worked in a High School in Alaska, accessible only by airplane. In the middle of a health crisis, she was\u00a0rescued in a dramatic plane trip that, violating air space rules, picked her up and carried her to a hospital in a\u00a0winter blizzard.
\nKathleen worked for UCSC (University of California of Santa Cruz) as secretary to the Chancellor. She edited\u00a0all of the Chancellor’s writings and correspondence, spearheading many large building and academic projects.\u00a0She was well loved by everyone for her efficiency and attention to details, and received full retirement benefits\u00a0after working there 20 years.<\/p>\n

Her marriage to Joe Sheepskin, a Canadian Native American, lasted into the 2000s, when he passed away from\u00a0Alzheimer’s and diabetes.<\/p>\n

She volunteered for many public service clubs and projects. Kathleen was an Amateur Radio Operator, Novice\u00a0call sign WN6KVH, which she earned in 1973, and then later upgraded to General Class, KI6AIE. She loved\u00a0Morse Code, which she used exclusively on HF radio. She was an active member of the Santa Cruz Amateur\u00a0Radio Club, serving on the Board as Treasurer and then Secretary from 2005 to 2010. She organized Christmas\u00a0banquets and auctions, and kept the membership rolls.\u00a0When her parents died, she managed their property east of Santa Cruz and served as secretary of the
\nHomeowners Association, managing road projects and the finances.<\/p>\n

In her late 60s, after being a member of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies for many years, she began taking\u00a0classes in Shamanism, working to become a healer and understanding the very basics of spirituality. All her life\u00a0she loved the Earth as Gaia, the ancestral mother of all life, and the primary Mother Earth goddess. During the\u00a060s to 70s, when Kathleen was living in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, her nickname was “Earth Mother”,\u00a0since she was known for her love of the earth throughout the hippie culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathleen \u00a0McQuilling, KI6AIE SK Kathleen Marian McQuilling January 15th, 1947 – August 21st, 2017 Kathleen McQuilling, 70, of Santa Cruz, California, passed away Monday August 21st, 2017 in Santa Cruz.\u00a0Kathleen was born in Seattle, Washington to Donald W. and Carol …<\/p>\n

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