October 31, 1960 ~ October 8, 2024
On Oct. 8, 2024, the life of a beautiful wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and friend was returned to the Merciful Savior Jesus Christ.
Mrs. Katherine DeGroot, better known as Kathy, lived a life filled with triumphs, trials, and tragedies beginning on Oct. 31, 1960.
Her parents were Robert and Hannelore (von Cotzhausen) Frazier. Kathy was born in Owosso, Mich., and later moved to Holt, Mich., where she spent her childhood.
In 1976, she made the individual move to California and resided there for roughly six years. From California, Kathy headed to Oregon, but this wasn’t meant to be her home. She yet again moved to Hesperia, Mich. only three years later. The small town of Hesperia is where Kathy settled with her four sons, Steven, David, Michael and Saul.
On Sept. 13, 1987, she married Daniel S. DeGroot and one year later gave birth to her only daughter, Danielle. This is only the foundation of Kathy’s memorable life. Throughout her years she served as a caregiver, worked as a cook in restaurants, one of which she owned in Grants Pass, Ore., a nursing home, and even owned her own ice cream truck, “The Goodie Monster.” Furthermore, Katherine had a best friend, Mrs. Relen D. Pickard, whom she actively served the Lord with through “Good News Club.”
All who knew Katherine would unanimously agree that no matter what trials were in place, she showed great strength, loved fiercely, always held the joy of the LORD firmly in her heart and she displayed this outwardly. Even when cancer began to take over her body, she radiated the face of Christ. Her favorite Bible verse, Ecclesiastes 7:8, accurately represents how Kathy, especially in her final days, viewed life; “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
Katherine impacted the lives and souls of many, and her constant beam of light, in a world so heavily darkened, will never be forgotten. She is survived by her husband of 37 years Daniel DeGroot of Hesperia; her children, Steven (Anita) Lotz; David (Elizabeth) Lotz; Michael (Brittanie) Lotz; Saul (Lisa) Frazier; Danielle (Caleb) Bradley: 12 grandchildren, Anthony, Jeffrey, Katelyn, Alexandria, Ryley, Ellie, Robert, Jonathan, Cadyn, Daniel, Wyatt and Greyson; one great-granddaughter, Iris; her siblings, Anne-Marie (Curt) Stevens; Earl (Lydia) Frazier; Christina Nestel; Steven (Marva) Frazier; many nieces, nephews, and “adopted” grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents Robert and Hannelore Frazier; father and mother-in-law John and Jean DeGroot; sister, Sue Lynn Frazier; grandson, Zakarey Lotz; brother-in-law, Charles Nestell; her friend, Relen and her great niece, Madelynn Birchmeier.
