Katrina Khadder,92 passed away peacefully on Tuesday November 25, 2014 at the Cupertino Healthcare & Wellness Center Nursing Home where she had been a patient since March 2014. She was born in Jerusalem, Palestine on May 28 1922 to Basil & lydia Shiber.

At the age of 17, Katrina graduated with honors from the Jerusalem Girls College. Soon after that,she met the love of her life Sami Khadder whom she married in 1940 in Jerusalem. She gave birth to her 2 sons, Wadie in 1941 and Karim in 1946.

In 1948, tragically, the family was forced to flee Palestine ultimately to settle in Kenya where they raised their 2 children. During the early 1970s Katrina & Sami relocated to England where they planned to settle and retire. A few years after Sami’s death in london in 1985, Katrina moved to California to be near her 2 sons and their families; she settled in the San Francisco Bay Area where she thrived for some 25 years until her passing.

Katrina was a lively member of her extended family in the Bay Area where she constantly displayed a passionate interest in the Palestinian community. She lived life to the fullest until she suddenly succumbed to drastically failing health in early 2014. In addition to her 2 sons and their families who include 4 grandchildren and 5 (soon to be 6) great-grandchildren, she is survived by her brothers Sami and Fuad and her sisters Nada and Ruth.