Kathryn (Kit) April VanEeten

March 5, 1955 - January 11, 2025

Kathryn (Kit) April VanEeten passed away on January 11, 2025, at her home in McDermitt, Nevada.
She was born on March 5, 1955, in Portland, Oregon to Juanita and Dewey Phillips.
She was the youngest of 4.
Kit lived most of her life in Oregon.  She married Joe VanEeten in 1985 in Tofino on Vancouver Island. Blending their two families together.
The family moved to Nevada in 2003, where her and Joe would live for the rest of her life. 
Kit loved flowers, gardening. She loved yellow roses, sunflowers and feeding the birds, especially her hummingbirds.
She enjoyed reading Stephen King novels and cooking and taking care of her family and pets.
She loved her Christmas Village and her snowmen; she was decorated for Christmas all year long. 
She always made sure her family had a hot meal every night and she always sent snow kisses when the first snow fell each year.
She loved the sun, her animals, and she started each day with her Starbucks Double Shot and a Marlboro. 
She is survived by her husband, Joe VanEeten, her children, Melinda Olsen and Max VanEeten and her stepchildren, Jessica and Rachel VanEeten.
Her grandchildren, Kylee Bennett, Jaxon William Olsen-Blanton, and Shaylinn Elizabeth Olsen-Blanton.
Her great-grandchildren, Elijah Bennett, Azalea Upshaw, Dexter, Daxtin and Dream VanEeten. As well as her brother, Don and sister, Julie. 
She is preceded in death by her parents, Dewey and Juanita Phillips, her brother, Chuck and her granddaughter, Stacy Bennett.