Maurine Louise Korfhage Kaestner Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

During the late evening hours of Saturday, June 25, 2022, Mrs. Maurine Louise Korfhage Kaestner, age 97 of Louisville, peacefully transitioned into rest at Forest Springs Health Campus. The daughter of the late Henry Christian Korfhage and Evelyn Hoffmann Korfhage, she was born in Louisville on September 03, 1924. Maurine will be missed by her family and remembered by all her life touched. For many years, she was a faithful volunteer for Norton Hospital in Louisville, Louisville General Hospital where she served as President of the Auxiliary. She served in the Preservation Alliance and American Red Cross, in addition to being active in the Louisville Women's Association, serving on the Board of Directors. Education and learning was very important to Maurine. She graduated with honors from Atherton High School and enrolled in U of K. Her college was interrupted by World War II. After marrying her Air Force Pilot she lived briefly in Texas, Alabama, Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, and North Carolina before returning to Louisville where she intended to return to college after the war but raising her family took priority. Her learning however, continued. She attended the Realton Institute, and the Florida Real Estate School and took additional college courses even in her late sixties. Maurine married her husband Freddy on June 12, 1943. They would be devoted to each other more than sixty-three years, until his death in 2006. When he contracted Parkinson’s she became his primary care-giver for the last thirty years of his life. Their family grew to include three children, many grandchildren, and a plethora of good friends whom she made along her journey. When her husband could no longer fly she got her private pilot license so they could continue to travel. Maurine was also became an avid golfer and bridge player. Maurine could be described as ambitious, ever-learning and very outgoing. Always with a smile on her face she loved her family and friends, whom she enjoyed spending time with. Maurine touched many lives during her time, and she will be deeply missed by all who had the chance to know her. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her beloved husband Freddy, and her son Dean Kaestner. Left to cherish her precious memory are her two sons, Rick Kaestner and his wife Victoria Engle Kaestner of Louisville, and Todd Kaestner and his wife Susan Brown Kaestner of Franklin, Tennessee. Maurine also leaves behind ten grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren. A funeral service to honor Maurine’s life will be held on Wednesday, July 06, 2022, at 2:30 P.M. in Pearson’s Chapel, 149 Breckenridge Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40207. The family will receive friends from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., four hours prior to the service at the funeral home. Interment will immediately follow the service where she will be laid to rest beside her beloved husband in Cave Hill Cemetery. Arrangements under the direction of Pearson's, "Where Louisville Goes To Remember". Use the link below to join the zoom meeting to watch the services online. The meeting will start at 2:30 https://zoom.us/j/8644988307?pwd=bTFIYU1JVjcvZ3czb1RaemFDZlpYQT09 Meeting ID: 864 498 8307 Passcode: 7XwHa5

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Maurine Louise Korfhage Kaestner

September 3, 1924 - June 25, 2022