Kelly Ann Kantack

Kelly Ann Kantack died Saturday, September 30, 2017, at the age of 50 at her home in Columbus. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home and Crematory. A Mass of the Resurrection will be said Friday, October 6, 2017 at 11:00 AM at Annunciation Catholic Church with Father Jeffrey Waldrep and Father Paul Stewart, celebrants. Visitation will begin at 10:00 AM in the Atrium of the church. Graveside services will be Monday, October 9, 2017 at 11:00 AM at Corinth National Cemetery, Corinth, MS.

The loving daughter of Paul W. Kantack and the late Catherine Margaret Driscoll Kantack, who died January 26, 2012, Kelly was born July 11, 1967, the same month and day as her father, in Oscoda, MI, at Wurtsmith AFB where Col. Kantack was stationed with the Eighth Air Force Strategic Command. A gifted child, she excelled in school and was especially talented in piano and voice.  A  Catholic, she guarded her faith and especially prayed for others, both living and dead, because she cared so much for other people. She was meek, humble and saintly and believed in Jesus and professing her faith.  She further displayed her talents and self in the poetry she wrote, especially in” Tapestry”, and she was published in Immaculata. She was a graduate of Archbishop Blank High School in New Orleans, and she attended Loyola University and Holy Cross College in New Orleans and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, majoring in education.  From the age of 17, she experienced difficult illnesses that required discipline, faith, courage and grit.

She is survived by her father Paul W. Kantack, her brother and sister –in-law Keith C. and Jerri Lamar Kantack of Tupelo, MS, her niece Emma Driscoll Kantack , as well as her little dog, Ginger Snap, a white toy poodle.

Memorials may be made to Friends of Annunciation Catholic Church, 823 College Street, Columbus, MS 39701.

“After crosses and strife the complete picture will shine through. Yea, like a perfect solitaire, no longer a rough diamond. You can be sure her love endures!”