Kim Lenore Kemmsies, 73 years of age, passed away March 13 th , 2026.
A native of San Antonio, TX but raised in the Eastern suburbs of Cleveland, OH, Kim was the daughter of Allen Raymond Savage and Mary Alva Norris Secoy.
Kim lived a long life of personal and professional achievement, and a life of travel, having lived in or traveled to more than 20 sovereign countries, alone and with her family. After graduating from West Geauga High School, she attended Miami University in Oxford, OH. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance and was among the
university’s earliest women finance graduates. After working for Standard Oil of Ohio as an auditor, she moved to Florida to be near her mother. When she arrived in Palm Beach Gardens, she took a job as a stockbroker and enrolled at Florida Atlantic University to earn a Master of Arts in Economics.
Her master’s thesis involved building the first input-output Model of Monroe County (Key West center) ever funded by a federal Sea Grant. It was in the graduate program at FAU that she met her eventual husband. Kim took a job with Broward County as an economic planner but left in 1983 to enter the Economics doctoral program at Texas A&M University. Following her first year in the program, she left to take a job as a senior economics consultant where she worked on famous cases such as the lawsuit by the states of WA, OR, CA, and AZ regarding price gouging during the 1973-1974 oil crisis.
Soon after she gave birth to her son. She remained employed by RRC after moving to Memphis, TN where she was also an adjunct professor of economics at the University of Memphis and supported the development of an econometric model of Shelby County, TN. Kim’s professional career ended when she moved with her family moved to Zurich, Switzerland, and then on to London, UK, several years later. During her residence in Europe, she visited numerous European and Asian countries, as well as Australia, and Kenya when she took her son on a safari across Tanzania.
Kim and her husband moved back to the US, to the New York area, before moving to Savannah, GA, where she passed. While in London and after moving back to the US, she was heavily involved in crafts, reflecting a life of artistic creativity which included sewing clothes since she was a teenager, watercolor painting (especially in the UK), taking needle point master classes at the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace, UK, and producing paper arts decorations.
She was preceded in death by her father Allen Savage, her mother Mary Norris, and some extended family members cousins and their family members.
Survivors include her husband, Walter of nearly 44 years, her son and daughter-in-law,her two grandchildren, as well as her sister and brother, and their children.
The family will receive friends at Kim’s memorial service to be held at 11:00 am at the First Presbyterian Church of Savannah located at 520 Washington Avenue, Savannah, GA 31405. Phone: (912) 354 7615.
Kim Kemmsies was a member of the Presbyterian Church in various U.S. cities where she was of involved with Bible studies. During the 1997-2005 period when she lived in London, UK, she was a member of, and at times the president of the American Women’s Club of London. She also organized large gatherings of crafters in her home in Hampstead Garden Suburbs in London.
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