Emma Platt Kaap
Emma Grace Platt Kaap, of Waco, just one month shy of 96, went to join her Heavenly Father and loved ones in Heaven on November 23, 2012. Funeral services will be 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church with Dr. Ralph Rummage officiating. Burial will take place at Vista Verde Cemetery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Visitation with her family will be 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd.
Emma Grace was raised on a dairy farm in Somerset, Pennsylvania with seven brothers and sisters. In these early years, she witnessed the advent of indoor electricity and plumbing, as well as motorized vehicles in her rural community. After high school, she followed one sister to Chicago to attend nurses’ training. There she married Ted Kaap and they soon left for Tucson, Arizona to be missionaries at the Tucson Indian Training School. From there they moved often taking their three children to Illinois, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Massachusetts and New Mexico. Emma Grace’s nineteenth move brought her to Waco in December of 1996.
Throughout her life, Emma Grace was a hard worker whether as a nurse or a homemaker. She loved baking cookies, picking fruits to make into jams, painting rooms, doing craft projects and playing Chicken Foot. She was known for her orange rolls, beautiful flowers and for being a sweet babysitter. Most of all, she will be remembered for wanting to help others, especially those who had few resources.
Emma Grace was preceded in death by her husband.
She will be greatly missed by her remaining siblings, Janet Gomola and husband, John of Pittsburgh, PA; her three children, Joyce Krause and husband, Paul of Tijeras, NM, Don Kaap and wife, Terry of Bolingbrook, IL and Carol Jones of Waco; five grandchildren and spouses, Erik and Kari Krause, Ben and Liza Kaap, Valerie and Quinn Fatherley, Tony and Jen Kaap and Kim and Jon Sibray; 10 great- grandchildren; and numerous other loved ones and friends.