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Woman, 41, dies after long sicknessBy CRAIG BASSE © St. Petersburg Times, published October 18, 2000 ST. PETERSBURG -- Kathryn A. "Kathy" Stuntz, stricken nearly 17 months ago while on a trip to Texas for a family wedding, has died at 41. Mrs. Stuntz, who became ill while she and her husband, Dave, were on a Galveston pier May 24, 1999, died Thursday (Oct. 12, 2000) at Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater. She underwent emergency surgery for what doctors told her husband was a perforated ulcer. The next day she went into cardiac arrest. Although resuscitated, she fell into a coma that did not lift for three months, her husband said Tuesday. She remained hospitalized with brain damage, first at Vencor Hospital-St. Petersburg and later at Integrated Health Services, Clearwater. The cause of death was listed as kidney failure, her husband said. Mrs. Stuntz, who had been a food and beverage supervisor at the TradeWinds Resort, St. Pete Beach, came here in 1992 from her native Hamilton, Ohio. In addition to her husband of six years, survivors include two daughters, Allison Leveline and Stephanie Stephens, both of Pinellas Park; her parents, Don and Mary Kay Cole, both of Hamilton; two sisters, Debbie Bryant, Pinellas Park, and Becky Gabbard, McKee, Ky.; two brothers, Rick Joseph, Chillicothe, Ohio, and David Joseph, Hamilton; and two grandchildren. National Cremation Society, St. Petersburg, is in charge of arrangements. - Information from Times files was used in this obituary.
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