Kay Herge Bartel This is Me

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1. 1. DailyProgress.com - December 24, 2002

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   BARTEL - Kay Herge Bartel, 67, died Friday. Hill & Wood Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
   
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   Kay Herge Bartel
   
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   Kay Herge Bartel, 67, of Keswick, died Friday, Dec. 20, 2002, at her home.
   
   Kay was born Jan. 7, 1935, in Findlay, Ohio, the daughter of Carlton and Beatrice Herge.
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   During this time Kay met and later married George Bartel, who was an Army Officer assigned as an instructor in the Army R.O.T.C. Department.
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   In 1975, when George retired from the Army, Kay and her husband embarked on a new career in residential real estate.
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   Kay became the manager of the Great Falls office of Long and Foster Real Estate where she spent more than 10 years overseeing one of the most productive offices of the company. Here, as in her army years, she touched the lives with love and made lifetime friends.
   
   In 1996, Kay was first treated for cancer. She underwent surgery followed by chemotherapy and appeared to be free of the disease. She then retired from work and moved with George to a community near Charlottesville and near her daughter, Christa and her family. There followed five wonderful years during which first a grandson arrived and the twins (a boy and a girl) all of whom could be spoiled almost daily.
   
   When the cancer returned the third time there were no defenses left. At the end, Kay was hospitalized for a time and then returned to her home where she was nursed by her daughter and her husband with the loving help of Hospice of the Piedmont as well as a host of her friends and neighbors.
   
   Kay is survived by her husband, George; one daughter, Christa Livermon of Greenwood; two sisters, Mary Higdon of Prairie Village, Kan., and Norma Zorn of Sandusky, Ohio; and one brother, John Herge of Reston.