Katherine

Talley

On August 3, 2025 God called his angel Katherine M. Talley home. She passed away at Merit House under Hospice care of Toledo, Ohio.

Katherine M. Talley was born November 27, 1954 at Maumee Valley Hospital to the union of Earl and Willie McDonald.

She accepted Christ into her life at an early age at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, where she sang in the Junior and Young Adult Choir for many years.

She attended Jesup W. Scott High School for all four years.

At the tender age of 13, Katherine began a courtship Gerald Edwin Talley Sr., where they welcomed their first born Gerald Edwin Talley Jr. The coupled married in 1971 and welcomed two more Children, Genise and Germaine Talley.

Katherine and Gerald were married 53 years.

Katherine "Kittie" attended UT College for a degree in Social Work. She enjoyed bingo, playing cards, bid whiz, tonk, traveling, listening to gospel music, Luther Vandross and Patty Labelle just to name a few of her favorite artist. She enjoyed Family gatherings.

She devoted herself in pouring into her ministers of directing the youth choir, vacation bible study and the adult choir.

"Kittie was a woman of many many hats, but none could every compare to the hats she had in her closet, Okay.

She was proceeded in death by her parents Earl and Willie McDonald; brother, Earl McDonald, Jr.; sister, Dorothy McDonald Rivers; brother Cedric McDonald.

She leaves to cherish her memory loving husband of 53 years, Gerald Talley; sons Gerald (Chresha) Talley II, Germaine (Tamara) Talley; daughter Genise James Williams; sisters, Shanna (Leonard) Scales; Celia McDonald; brothers, Carl (Tracy) McDonald Tracy (Gina) McDonald, 7 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews and one special friends Darlene Reynolds and Latina Jett.