Meals On Wheels Volunteer Mourned
Mary McCue says she'll miss Kathleen King, the woman she came to look forward to seeing when it was time for a delivery from Meals on Wheels. McCue said she believes she is the last person King visited before the accident that took King's life on Monday.
"Just monday she said, 'They ask me, how much do they pay you for doing this?' She said, 'I don't need to get paid, I enjoy visiting the people. I should pay them.' She was that kind of person. My mind is gone, I truly don't remember things, but you couldn't forget a person like that," says McCue.
King died Tuesday after being in critical condition with head injuries. Police say King parked her car at the Brandywine apartments in Guilderland, then tried to stop it when it began to roll back. King fell and was pinned under the car. She was 80. Her clients are shocked, and some are a little angry.
"You have all these pedophiles and everything else walking the streets and nothing happens to them. It makes you question life," said Marcia Mastroianni. "I don't know...maybe God wants the good ones."
King's daughter says her mother retired after thirty-eight years with the New York State Division of Parole, where she had been secretary to the chairman. She was born in Amsterdam, grew up in Schenectady and graduated from Albany Business College. She was the mother of four, including one son who died when he was three. King called her Meals on Wheels clients "my peeps", sometimes did their laundry and found some things in common with them.
"She was saying that she had arthritis in the hands also, but she still sewed," Mararget Bourne said.
Co-worker Caroline Ratta said King often helped her co-workers, too. "If there was anybody that couldn't do a route one week, she would do it for them," says Ratta. "She would help out that way, too."
