Kathleen Baugh Gleason, who at 27 survived a vicious bout of polio and went on to have a full and vibrant life, died in the early spring of 2020, at the age of 92, just as the Covid pandemic set in.
Her family held off on a requiem Mass until April 30th, when they gathered to mark a life well lived.
In 1954, when Kathleen took ill with polio, the family thought her funeral might be imminent. The mot…