[Home-on-the-Range] Tamara Kearney 1958 - 2020 - Obituary

[slstanzel at kc.rr.com]

Hi Everyone,

I know a few of you would simply like to read this imbedded in the email. Thanks to Rob Tabor for sending it.

I wish I had really known her better.

Susie

Tamara Kearney passed away on Saturday August 8, 2020 from injuries sustained in a pedestrian/car accident in Lawrence, Kansas. She was born October 5, 1958 in Rock Island, Illinois to Sandra Schmacht and Raymond Johnson. She was a 1976 graduate of Lawrence High School, and a graduate of the Challenger Institute of Technology in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Tamara was an active and engaged member of the community, employed by the Lawrence Recreation Department as a Yoga instructor and by San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind as a Braille proof reader. She also ran her own business as a clinical massage therapist. Tamara was active in both the National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind where she served as state president in Wyoming. During that time, she acted as a lobbyist for those organizations in Washington, DC. For several years she was the Children's Library Officer for the Association for the Blind of Western Australia in Perth where she helped develop tactile early learning materials for blind children.

Tamara loved to travel and live in new and interesting places, and was an avid cyclist. She was always willing to help other blind and disabled people to better their lives.

Tamara is survived by her husband, Gregory Kearney of Lawrence and by her three children, Shawn and Laura Kearny of Minneapolis, MN, Shannon and Aaron Kuluk of Nashville, TN and Nathaniel Kearney of Lawrence as well as five grandchildren. She is also survived by her father, Raymond Johnson and step- mother, Jan Johnson of Yuma, Arizona and a step-father, Courtney Hanson of Perry, Kansas. In addition, she is survived by her beloved guide dog Rex, her faithful companion and guide for eight years. She was preceded in death by her mother.

Tamara met every challenge in this life with grace, good humor and courage. She never once let her blindness define or limit her but rather used it to enlarge and improve the lives of all she came in contact with.

Services will be at a later date. The family request that in lieu of flowers donations may be made to:

Tamara Kearney Technology Fund

Lawrence Lions Foundation

2101 E 29th St

Lawrence, KS 66046

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Subject: [Home-on-the-Range] Tamara Kearney 1958 - 2020 - Obituary

Good afternoon Kansas federation family,

Posted below is Tamara Kearney‘s obituary as written in the Lawrence Journal World. please note that donations are requested to the Kansas Lions site foundation.Tamara was loved by all members of the Kansas Federation family and will truly be missed.
Best regards,
Rob Tabor | 1st vice president national Federation of the blind of Kansas
PH: (785) 865-9959
https://obituaries.ljworld.com/obituaries/ljworld/obituary.aspx?n=tamara-kearney&pid=196646355&fhid=24990

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