Kathryn Johnson Bilbao

Kathryn “Kayte” Johnson Bilbao Kayte Bilbao, age 94, passed away on Saturday, August 1, 2009. She was born October 4, 1914, in Dayton, Idaho, the youngest of seven children, to Augusta P. Belnap and Benjamin Albin Johnson. Kayte’s, mother died when she was two years old. She lived with her father on the farm in Dayton until school age. The next six years Kayte stayed with a loving woman she called Grandma Harrington in Ogden. During the summers Kayte loved spending time with her father at his sheep camp in the Eden area. After her father died when she was 14, she worked and then attended beauty school with some money he left for her, but Kayte had to wait until she was 16 to get her license. Kayte was married to Fred Shupe for 17 years. He was killed in a lumber accident in California. She married Bonifacio “Bonny” O. Bilbao on October 8, 1951, in Evanston, Wyoming. In Huntsville they ran the “Shooting Star”. In 1955 they moved to Bountiful where Kayte loved to garden, cook, make candy, crochet, hunt and fish. She was very resourceful and found joy in life. She is survived by nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews. The family wishes to thank the kind people at Heritage Place and Life Care of Bountiful who cared for Kayte. Funeral services will be Thursday, August 6, 2009, at 11:00 AM at Lindquist’s Bountiful Mortuary, 727 N. 400 East. Friends and family may call Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Thursday one hour prior to services. Interment at Bountiful City Cemetery. Condolences may be shared at www.lindquistmortuary.com