Kennewick elementary school teacher dies

A first-grade teacher at Kennewick’s Edison Elementary School died Saturday after being out on medical leave since February.

Katherine Irene Yeats, 60, was born in Kellogg, Idaho, and lived in the Tri-Cities most of her life.

She began teaching kindergarten at the South Dawes Street school in 1997, district officials said.

She began teaching first-graders in 2013. Before working in Kennewick, she was a teacher at Richland’s Badger Mountain Elementary School.

This story was originally published November 30, 2015 at 6:29 PM with the headline "Kennewick elementary school teacher dies."