Kathy Ann Troxel

Kathy Wilson Troxel, age 77, died on Sunday, August 31 peacefully at her home in Sylvania. Born July 7, 1948 to Marion and Eleanor (Bennett) Wilson in Toledo, Ohio, she resided in Sylvania, Ohio and spent time at a second home in Windsor, Colorado from 2010 – 2025.

She was owner and property manager of Liberty Square Offices in Sylvania Township for 20 years and was also for several years a vice president of M.L. Wilson Builder, Inc., a homebuilding company founded by her father in 1950.

Mrs. Troxel owned River Ridge Interiors, a design firm, for 10 years. She was formerly Information Services Director for Washington Local Schools from 1970-75. She was a 1966 graduate of Whitmer High School and was active in the class reunions since 1991. She planned the 50 th reunion for Class of ’66 in 2016.

She was a graduate of the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University. Mrs. Troxel was a member of Olivet Lutheran Church, Sylvania, Ohio and was a former member of the Board of Directors for Sylvania Area Chamber of Commerce. For several years she was Chairman of the Fall Festival parades in Sylvania.

She retired in 2007 when she and her husband sold their businesses.

Survived by husband, Richard E. Troxel; daughters, Dr. Tiffany Troxel and son-in-law Nish Shah of London, England, and Dr. Tara Troxel of Colorado; Granddaughter Sophia Shah, sister Mrs. Janet (Scott) Wenland of Sylvania; six nephews, three nieces and many special friends and family members. She was preceded in death by her father, Marion “Mike” Wilson in 2012 and mother, Eleanor Bennett Wilson in 2016.

Memorials may be made to Nature’s Nursery https://natures-nursery.org ; Phone 419-877- 0060 or to Washington Local Schools Foundation https://wlsfoundation.org at 3505 W. Lincolnshire Blvd., Toledo OH 43606; Phone 419-473-8251 and designate gift toward “Alumni Activities.”

Visitation will be held on Sunday, September 7 from 11am to 1pm at Reeb Funeral Home, 5712 N. Main St., Sylvania, OH; Phone 419-882-2033.

“I will leave this earth without doing everything I had to do. But I hope what I leave behind showed that I cared about my beloved husband, daughters, parents, sister, family and cherished friends. I did my best. Treasure your lives and smile when you think of me.” From Kathy Troxel

This is Kathy’s favorite quotation, which is from John Denver, “I hope that some time in your life, you’ll be able to go some place where it’s quiet, where there are no cars, no dogs barking, no planes passing overhead and that you will be able to listen to all of the music that Nature gives us. If you’re really lucky, you’ll be able to sit by a lake at the foot of a mountain and hear a storm come and go. There is beautiful, beautiful music there. All you have to do is listen.”

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