Katharine Grace Buesing

Kay Buesing passed away on Thursday afternoon, February 25, 2021, in Long Beach, Washington at the age of 86. She spent the end of her life surrounded by family who adored her, living on the peninsula where she has made substantial impacts for over 40 years. 

She was an English teacher who could rarely find the right word, but always found fun ways to make a point. She once lost her keys in her stick shift, and called for help saying they had disappeared down the “shift shaft”. She was famously, and cheerfully, bad at the word game Taboo. She taught hundreds of people to love reading, and drama, and art of all kinds. In her over two decades as the director of the World Kite Museum, Kay helped organize the diverse and widespread kiters of the world with her husband Jim to create a wonderful monument to their community.