Kathryn King "Kathy" Hutmaker
September 23, 1947 ~ September 17, 2024
Kathryn Hutmaker, “Kathy”, 76, of Great Mills, MD, passed away on September 17, 2024 in Leonardtown, MD. Born on September 23, 1947, in Great Barrington, MA, she was the daughter of the late Kathryn King and the late Gordon Gibbs. Kathy is survived by her children, Sean Hutmaker of Joliet, IL and Paul Hutmaker (Kristin) of Mechanicsville, MD, her granddaughters, Hailey Hutmaker and Peyton Hutmaker, her sisters, Betty Petersen of Sheffield, MA and Linda Chase of Sheffield, MA, and her brother, Tom Gibbs of Sheffield, MA. Kathy was preceded in death by her siblings Correll Pezee, Leslie Conklin, Gordon Gibbs, Richard Gibbs, Donald Gibbs, and James Gibbs.
Kathy graduated from Mt. Everett High School in 1965. She left Massachusetts traveling as a military spouse and settled in St. Mary’s County, MD in 1980 where she raised her two sons. Kathy was employed by the United States government and retired working as a Budget Analyst at the NAVAIR Comptroller on the Patuxent River Naval Air Station.
The family will receive friends on Thursday, October 3, 2024 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD, where a funeral service will be held at 3:00 PM in the funeral home chapel with Fr. Joseph Cwik officiating. Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of St. Mary’s, P.O. Box 625, Leonardtown, MD 20650.
Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home and Cremation Services, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.
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To Kathy’s family and friends. May your memories sustain you during this sad time. I will always remember her and her fantastic wit from our days working on the base.
Kath was the baby of the family and will be so greatly missed. Love Betty & Wes
Kathy was always the bravest, most fearless of our group of five youngsters…she showed that same spirit this past month. We have wonderful memories of our times together. Rest in peace, BFL.
Rich and Laraine Novak
My condolences to Kathy’s sons. You never knew me, but Kathy was my best friend in high school, where she excelled as a gymnast and loved being a cheerleader. She was “Gibber” and nicknamed me “Neatsey.” Our group of friends included Ellie, Rosemary, Hazel, Marcia, and Candy, but she was the center of it. She was sassy and irreverent. She loved to talk about her big family. She could be a drama queen and a risk-taker. I was with her when she jumped off the cliff overhanging the quarry swimming hole! I’ve never known anyone else like her. She left me with many memories.
Anne (Beneat) Beattie
Aunt Kathy would come to visit her sister Leslie (my Mom) in RI and it was always wonderful to hear them laugh and tell stories from their childhood. I remember visiting her and her family in Minnesota in the winter and later in Maryland in the summer, and meeting her good friend Carolyn and Carolyn’s daughters Julie and Brenda who were good folks who obviously cared a lot for Aunt Kathy. She was funny and direct, but also private and pretty. She sure loved being “Nanny” to her two grand-daughters. She met my mini-dachshund Gwen at a family picnic and liked her much, she got her own soon after, Penny. She hated cheese and collected owls, and loved her family very much. She will be missed so much!
Such a special person and dear friend. I will miss you, Kathy. We had some great times together, like that time in Minnesota with the five young boys! What were we thinking? Love you 💖. Karen
I started work at the US Commisary Store as a Store Checker, in 1980 with Kathy. She made work fun and I will never forget her smile, and her infectious laughter! I remember she shared this story with me. She told this lady came up to her and told her she had a bad potato in her bag she put on the conveyer belt.
Kathy looked at the bag and then she took the bag and spanked it saying bad potato! Bad potato! I hit the floor with laughter. I used to called her what a woman! She loved her family, and especially her granddaughters.
Rest in peace my dear friend. We live in NC now and won’t be able to attend the service, but we will hold you all in our hearts, thoughts and prayers. God bless y’all. Hugs, Karen Smith Arnold Stopa
Dear, Sean, Paul, Kristin, Hailey, Peyton and the rest of the Gibbs clan. My deepest sympathy for the loss of your mother, grandmother sister aunt and my dearest cousin. She, will be warmly welcomed into the afterlife by many friends and family, especially her true and loyal friend Carolyn. I, can still remember on a vist to Sheffield many years ago she proclaimed to be “THE BOSS AROUND HERE. ” Bill (skip) Gunther. william.gunther@live.com
I worked with Kathy for quite a few years in the Comptroller Department at NADOC and NAVAIR. I will never forget her infectious laughter, her sense of humor, and her sassiness. She was quite a character and kept us laughing all the time. She adored her dog, Penny, and would often tell our division director that Penny had called her and she needed to go home because Penny missed her. We learned early on that Kathy did not like cheese, so there was to be no cheese in any dishes we made for our office pot-luck lunches and parties. Halloween was such fun, as our office would come up with a group idea and we would all dress accordingly. Kathy was the perfect “lady of the night” one year, and our song was “She Works Hard for the Money” … what memories and great fun! Kathy always made the daily grind of work interesting and entertaining. She absolutely loved her sons and their families, and was so proud of all of them. My heartfelt condolences go out to her entire family.