Kim is survived by her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, son-in-law Brian Dostal, grandchildren: Eve Elizabeth, Isaiah Xavier, Samuel Frantisek, Solomon Sebastian, Rebekah Kateri; her son, Reverend Father Daniel Kluge, her brother Daniel Shearer, and her husband David Kluge.

Kim attended the University of Iowa on a music scholarship, and played viola in the university orchestra while she was there. She graduated with a degree in Occupational Therapy, but after working in that field for a while in Philadelphia, moved to San Francisco. Finding Occupational Therapy jobs scarce she got into computer work, starting with key punching at Blue Cross Blue Shield. She had an extremely quick mind and picked up the various computer languages and debugging programming skills without difficulty. It helped that she loved solving puzzles. Within a short time she became one of the top 3 program debuggers in the city, working for Crown Zellerbach, Bechtel and Bank of America. It was at B of A where she learned and worked with COBOL. She retired the day she gave birth to our daughter.

Kim met David on February 27, 1972, at a Sierra Club hike. They married on September 7, 1974. Afflicted with a major spinal disc injury in her 30s she was unable to stand, walk, or sit upright for very long. In her 50s she had surgery for breast cancer and she suffered with Parkinson's for the last 19 years of her life. Even so, she homeschooled both children through grade school and high school, and oversaw the selection of solid Catholic colleges for them both. On October 15, 1983, she shepherded the whole family into the Catholic Church which surprised, to say the least, her Presbyterian parents. She was fully engaged in serving the Church in all appropriate ways. She loved the TLM, liturgy, prayers, music, and lovely old hymns. It settled her soul.

On February 1, 1980, they moved to a 24-acre farm in the middle of nowhere outside of the small town of Sheridan, Oregon. She influenced all our lives for the better, and she was enormous fun in the bargain. She was an excellent cook and an even better baker.

She will be missed. We pray that her soul be released as quickly as possible from Purgatory, and that she then rest in peace for all eternity in heaven with Jesus and Mary.