Catherine Mary Vedder

Catherine Mary Vedder of Frankfort, Kentucky, passed away on September 23rd, 2026, at the age of 75. She was born in New York on November 20, 1950.
A gifted athlete, Cathy attended the University of Alabama on a tennis scholarship, earning her BA there before going on to earn a Ph. D. in English Literature at Cornell University. Cathy was a professor of English at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, before moving to Frankfort and joining the English department at Kentucky State