No obituary has been found or submitted for our classmate, Kathy Kreyling. On the website of Greyhound Pets, Inc. posted December 14, 2022

IN MEMORY OF KATHY KREYLING

December 14, 2022

GPI lost one of our best recently. Sadly, our Regional Vice President and Head of Adoptions, Kathy Kreyling, has passed away.

A GPI volunteer since 2009, Kathy was doing her dream job.

You can feel her commitment and passion for helping dogs find their forever families in each and every Adoption Tails story she wrote and we posted here on our blog.

We are richer for having known Kathy. Her GPI family will miss her deeply.

The spring 2015 issue of The Bark, the official newsletter of Greyhound Pets, Inc. included the following article about Kathy.

Who We Are - Kathy Kreyling - By Jeani Penn 

Most of you know that we have a new Regional Vice President for the North Puget Sound Region of Greyhound Pets, Inc. That person is Kathy Kreyling and I, for one, want to welcome her as my VP. Kathy has done so much for our organization and scheduling the volunteers is probably the most challenging job of all. I’m sure you’ve all seen the pleas for help that she sends out regularly. 

Let me tell you a little about Sophie’s Mom. She was born and raised in Evansville, Indiana and most of her family is still there. She attended Ohio Wesleyan University and majored in Economics, then went on to get her Master’s from American graduate School of International Management. 

Her career took her all over the U.S. while she worked in consumer research. She’s lived in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Cincinnati. She worked her way up to Vice President of Sales and ran the Cincinnati office for a firm based in Indianapolis. She moved to Seattle almost 20 years ago. 

When she moved to Seattle, she did some freelancing before deciding to take the plunge and retire. She has been a very busy woman ever since. Until GPI put her to work, she was involved with the American Singles Golf Association. She and a few friends started the chapter here and she was Treasurer for 5 years. I’m wondering with all she does for GPI now, if she has time for golf??? It was through the ASGA that she met Turtle Humphries, who introduced her to the Greyhounds. Up until that time she had been a Golden Retriever person. With Turtle she began volunteering at the kennel once a week, then twice a week, then helped out at meet and greets, started sending out packets to new volunteers and learned home visits and adoptions (which what she was really working toward). Somewhere along the line she took up volunteer scheduling for turnouts. Recently, she took on managing the Theraplate. This tool has already shown results with the kennel dogs and many folks are starting to use it on their personal pups. She is hoping it pays for itself by offering its use to anyone who would like to use it and, for those who didn’t know (I’m one) it’s available for other breeds as well. 

Even though she was involved with GPI to the extent she was, she didn’t actually have one. She thought her Golden, Bridgette, was so protective that she wouldn’t be able to bring one home. But then came one of the three sisters. For those who have been around for awhile, you will remember the painfully shy three little black sisters who were at the kennel for a bit. Kathy fell in love with Sophie and took her home. 

I still remember the “where’s Sophie?” picture where Sophie was hiding among all the pillows on Kathy’s bed. She said that Bridgette wasn’t exactly welcoming, but Sophie plied her charms and now the two are okay with each other and Kathy is thrilled to be owned by her Greyhound. 

Kathy enjoys her time at the kennel and working with all the wonderful volunteers at GPI and has made many friends. In her words “The thing that impressed me most when I started volunteering is that the dogs always come first and the driving force behind most decisions is doing what’s in the best interest of the dog”. She says that speaks well about the organization and the people who run it!!!! 

Thank you, Kathy, for keeping the turn outs running smoothly and for all that you have recently taken on.