Kathleen Jurewicz Obituary

Kathleen M. Jurewicz, 65, passed away peacefully at home in Conway, South Carolina on Sunday, February 22, 2026.

Kathy was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado to the late Lee M. Boyle Piper (Hale) and the late Kevin E. Boyle. In her younger years she traveled with her family extensively overseas courtesy of the United States Air Force residing in Okinawa and the Philippines returning intermittently to Air Force bases in Michigan and Florida. The family ultimately settled in Toms River, New Jersey where she graduated from Toms River South High School. Kathy earned her undergraduate degree at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where she earned a master's degree in Gerontology.

Kathy was wed to Mark E. Jurewicz on September 6, 1986 and resided first in Hawthorne, New Jersey before settling in Pompton Plains to raise their family.

Kathy never forgot a birthday or significant life event and found joy in choosing the perfect gifts for an ever-expanding number of Easter baskets and Christmas stockings for her children, their college friends and roommates, and of course her grandchildren who were her true passion for the last several years of her life.

Kathy loved preparing elaborate feasts for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Her recipes for cranberry sauce and numerous varieties of pierogi were thankfully written down and live on through Megan and Patrick.

Kathy loved to entertain, whether barbeque/pool parties at home with upwards of 200 people or football tailgate parties with a mere 100 of her children's friends. Tailgate parties at Penn State were events not to be missed with pre-game food and drink ranging from TEC on hard rolls to jalapeño pierogi followed by post-game marinated (secret recipe) thinly sliced London broil steak.

Kathy was preceded in death by her siblings Patrick and Sharon Boyle and by her niece Riley Boyle.

Kathy is survived by her husband Mark of thirty-nine years; children Megan and husband Clark, and Patrick and fiancée Hayley; grandchildren Colin and Norah; and four of her siblings, Maureen, John, Timothy and Brian.

A celebration of Kathy's life is being planned for late spring in New Jersey.

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