Katherine Theresa Brodland

Kathy Brodland (nee Howard) passed away on the evening of Sunday, April 13, 2025.

She is survived by her wife Bren L Brodland, her brother Gord Henwood and various

other family and friends.

Kathy was an 86-year-old retiree living in Drumheller, Alberta with her wife Bren and

their 5-yr old rescue yorkie named Jackie. Kathy was a vivacious, funny extrovert. She

was bubbly and full of joy. Her kindness knew no bounds. She was passionate about

many things: gardening, travelling, all animals but especially dogs. She loved to sit in

her recliner and watch the birds, rabbits, squirrels, mule-deer, and any other animal who

wandered their yard. She could spend hours watching.

Career-wise she described herself as a ‘jack-of-all-trades and master of none.’ Over the

years she has worked as an office clerk, nurse’s aide, health care worker and for a while,

she owned her own residential and commercial cleaning company. In between careers,

she wrote several sci-fi novels and short stories, none of which she attempted to

publish. Kathy’s largest dream was to be a published writer.

It wasn’t until her wife read the first draft of a new novel ten years ago and introduced

her to lesbian fiction that she felt brave enough to consider seeing if she was good

enough to make her life’s dream come true and be published. In 2016, at the age of 78,

Ylva published a short story, “An Orphan’s Christmas”, in their anthology, Looking for

Ms. Write. Next, she published her debut novel, “An Unfortunate Incident”, in 2019.

Another short story “Closure” was published in Lady Grim 2021: A Halloween

Anthology. She added a novella, “Payback' s a Bitch” in 2023. Last year, she published

“Maggie”, a second full length novel. She was very proud when all her published work

was available on Amazon under KT Brodland. Two days before she died, she was

working on the final edit of her most recent work. She had hoped to publish it in

September of 2025.

Kathy requests donations to ‘animal rescue no-kill shelters’ in lieu of flowers. Her

favourite three were LAPS (Langley Animal Protection Society), in Langley BC, ARTS

(Alberta Rescue Transfer Society) in Edmonton, AB, and Heaven Can Wait in High

River, AB.

A celebration of Kathy’s life will be held in Drumheller, AB at a date, place, and time

TBA.

As per the family's request no trees or flowers please, thank you.