Mary Kay Kare

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Mary Kay Kare at Chicon 7 in 2012. Photo by Mark Olson.

(circa 1954 — October 7, 2021)

Mary Kay Kare (née Jackson) was a Bay Area conrunning fan who co-chaired Potlatch 19 in 2010 and who worked on a large number of regionals and Worldcons. She was a member of the Mythopoeic Society and had been on its Council of Stewards.

She grew up in Oklahoma and was a member of the Norman Oklahoma SF Society in the late 1970s. She later lived in Ohio, Seattle and the Bay Area.

Her fanzines include Red Dust. She was a member of a number of APAs: Slanapa, DI apa, Butterbur's Woodshed, APAPI, and Myriad. She was very active online in the '90s and '00s.

She was married to fellow fan Jordin Kare. Before her retirement, she was a librarian. She died of a blood infection in 2021.

Jordin and Mary Kay Kare, Boskone 37, 2000. Photo by Laurie Mann.

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