Kathleen Melchior Wahl

Kathleen "Kim" Irene Melchior Wahl passed our earth peacefully with family by her side on July 31, 2024, after a 15 year battle with ovarian cancer.

Kim was born May 22, 1937, in Evanston, Illinois. She attended Trinity, a Catholic school in River Forest. She excelled there and went on to earn her RN degree from St. Francis School of Nursing. Soon after, she met her husband, William Wahl, at a mixer during his medical residency. They married in 1959.

Stationed in Stuttgart from 1963-1966, Kim and Bill explored Western Europe with other military couples remaining friends after resigning and moving to Bellevue to raise their family. Kim managed their gastroenterology practice, volunteered in the kid's schools and worked as a crisis counselor at Eastside Mental Health. In 1985, they moved to Seattle to work with Ground Zero on nuclear weapons resistance earning Kim multiple arrests and jailtime. Kim displayed environmental awareness long before it was prevalent, tending an enormous garden, creating gorgeous cards from her plants, and encouraging economical uses of natural resources. As a couple, Kim and Bill were involved in several peace and church communities helping those less fortunate. Members of Physicians for Social Responsibility, she and Bill attended medical conferences together.

A dedicated Eucharistic minister for St. Therese Parish for many years, Kim will be remembered for her magnetism, bravery, kindness, intellect and sense of humor. She left our earth a better place and will be remembered by everyone she touched.

She is survived by her three children, Barbara, Jeffrey and Katherine; sons-in-law, David and John; grandchildren, Jason, Matthew, Taylor, Rachel, Eli and Haydn, whom she doted on and adored and her sister, Mary. She is preceded in death by her husband Bill of 60 years; son, Stephen William; her parents, Trudy and John and her brother Mike.

Remembrances to St. Therese Parish or Ground Zero Center in Poulsbo, WA.