Meet Ted
and Kathy Litkovitz
Serving and Helping to Build a Strong Faith Community
Ted and Kathy Litkovitz have been members of the faith community for 55 years.
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ed and Kathy Litkovitz first met while bowling with a Catholic young adults group. They spent the evening with friends dancing by the jukebox and sharing Cokes. As Kathy puts it, “The rest was history.” “We had a lot in common, and we were both Catholic and went to Catholic school,” Kathy says. “Our schools were less than a block away, and we never knew each other until that night. We were married a year later.” Today, Ted and Kathy have been members of the faith community for 55 years. Their daughters attended the school as did their granddaughters, and one of their daughters
taught at the school for 14 years. In fact, Catholic school was always deeply important to them. “We wanted to be in a younger parish with a school like the parishes we grew up in,” Kathy says. “They used to have Mass in the school gymnasium while building the new church, and I remember being pregnant and trying to walk across the ice in the parking lot alone. A man helped me in. We’ve just always felt at home here.” While Kathy was expecting, she began teaching CCD classes, but she only taught for a year before their first daughter was born. Several years later, she taught in the preschool religious program when she had a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old, Rebecca and Amy, and then worked in the learning center while her daughters were at St. Joseph. “Then they started these mini-classes for seventh and eighth-graders, so I taught cake decorating for years,” Kathy says. “All the students came to my home. Now they’re in their 40s and 50s, and they still tell me they’re decorating birthday cakes like we did.” The most impactful experience for Kathy during her years of involvement with the parish came through her work with the Mary Stations, or the Stations of the Cross from the perspective of Mary. Together with a group of about 11 women, Kathy brought the Mary Stations to parishes all over the diocese and went to a nursing home and a county prison. “It was an unbelievable experience and the pinnacle of my parish life,” Kathy says. “We stopped when the pandemic hit, and the group leader said we’ll see what happens during this coming Lent. In all the things I’ve ever volunteered in my life, this was the high point.” continued on page 5
“Those who came before us created a beautiful school and a beautiful parish. Now we’re investing in the people coming after us, which is a responsibility that we all have.” — Kathy Litkovitz page 4
