Kathy was born May 12th 1953 in Washington D.C. She is the daughter of Mary and Rudolph Brlansky. She attended the Joseph P. Kennedy Institute in Washington D.C. and graduated in 1972. After school, Kathy had several odd jobs that kept her busy in her earlier days, and then joined a day program at Melwood Horticultural Training Center, where she proudly performed her creative abilities throughout the community. In her later years she stayed home with Mom and Dad and kept herself busy by writing her own stories, scrapbooking, and sometimes combining both these talents into one, creating stories by cutting words from various magazines that she had collected throughout the years and pasting them on paper to create a story. She was incredibly creative. She liked to watch her favorite sitcom TV shows, like “Facts of Life,” “Full House,” and “The Brady Bunch.” Her favorite movie was The Wizard of Oz. She would watch it together with her family every year when it came on TV, and sing along with Judy Garland when she sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Kathy loved her family. She always welcomed everyone with a big hug and would tell them that they were her “favorite.” She always looked forward to our yearly Ocean City trips with Aunts, Uncles, and cousins, and every year for the annual putt-putt night, she would always come home with the winning free game of putt-putt by getting a hole-in one on the last hole. She was the life of the party at family weddings, cutting loose on the dance floor and always beating the ladies out of catching the bouquet. It never failed, she was always the one to catch it! She was preceded in death by her brother Jim Brlansky. She is survived by immediate family members David and Maria Brlansky of Frederick, MD, Patti, Mike and Grace Magill of Greenbelt, MD, Jessie, Liza, and Audrey Brlansky, Chelsea, Andy, AJ and Athena Bender, Danny and Karla Paolucci, and many extended aunts, uncles, and cousins.

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