Kathryn Pokorski Shemwell

Kathryn Pokorski Shemwell, 76, passed away November 10, 2022, at her residence in Southaven, MS. A visitation will be held Monday, November 14, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Coleman Funeral Home of Southaven (626 Star Landing Road East, Southaven, MS 38672). A funeral service will immediately follow at 12:00 p.m., also at Coleman Funeral Home of Southaven. Mike Fleming, Kathryn’s brother-in-law, will be officiating. Coleman Funeral Home of Southaven is in charge of arrangements. She was born September 10, 1946 in Memphis, TN. She had a special relationship with her maternal Grandmother and was still talking about it in her later years, how much she loved her Grandmother. She was the oldest of four, and she loved her siblings very much. She grew up in Midtown Memphis and told stories of life as a child in the 1950s, and how much simpler things were back then. She had wonderful childhood friends, many of whom she stayed in touch with all her life. She went to Central High School, graduating in 1964. The following year, she moved to Texas to live with a dear friend, and to work in the theater there. It was in Dallas that she met her first husband, Stephen Hollon. They were married in Memphis not long after, and they moved to Atlanta. It was there that Kathryn’s only child was born, Jennifer Kathleen Hollon. A year later, Kathryn and Jennifer moved back to Memphis, and met her husband, Earl Shemwell, where they worked together at Southern Airlines. For most of Kathryn’s adult life, she held a job at the airlines; Braniff, Southern, Republic, and Northwest. It was by working there all those years that she was able to give her daughter and her parents free flying privileges anywhere in the United States, something she was always proud of. Kathryn loved music, John Denver, cats, flowers, fireworks, her daughter, her step children and grandchildren, and all of her family, very much. She put more time into thinking about other people and what she could give them, than of herself. She will be greatly missed and thought of often as someone who was one of a kind, and full of love. Kathryn is survived by her daughter, Jennifer Wade (Rick) of Olive Branch, MS; her sisters, Melinda Kincade of Germantown, TN and Carol Fleming (Mike) of Bartlett, TN; one brother, George Pokorski (Keleta) of Olive Branch; her step daughter, Patricia Hill (Randy) of Memphis, TN; her stepson, David Shemwell (Susan), her grandchildren, Berlin Austin Howell IV, of Southaven, Katie Howell of Chattanooga, TN, and Rowan Wade of Olive Branch; and David, Daniel, Joshua, and James Shemwell; and a host of nieces and nephews, as well as extended family members, who all held very special places in her heart. She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Shemwell and her parents, Ernest Pokorski and Lucy Kathryn Balfour Pokorski. Online condolences may be left on his Tribute Wall at www.colemanfuneralhome.com.

Kathryn Pokorski Shemwell

September 10, 1946 - November 10, 2022

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