Dylla, Kathy

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Mrs. Kathy Dylla was born and raised in San Antonio and has been a parishioner of St. Matthew since 1986. She values her Catholic faith and is grateful to her parents for sacrificing to send her to Catholic school…kindergarten through college.
     She graduated from St. Luke Catholic School in 1984, Incarnate Word High School in 1988, and St. Mary’s University in 1992. Mrs. Dylla earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Communications with a lifetime Texas teaching certificate.
     Following graduation, Kathy Dylla taught in Northside ISD at newly-opened Jordan Middle School until 1999. She was blessed to have coached volleyball, basketball, and track, create 7 yearbooks for over 1500 students and staff each year, and learned the skill of a lifetime - driving a “standard” school bus for her athletic teams after earning her CDL.
     Soon after, she enjoyed the opportunity to teach at St. Matthew’s Mother’s Day Out program where she implemented an ABC curriculum for the 4-year-old class which involved many hands-on field trips.
     Mrs. Dylla’s real love was teaching middle school English grammar and diagramming and designing yearbooks. Her opportunity to continue this came in August 2003 at St. Matthew, when she was hired to teach middle school English and instruct the Yearbook class. This was a blessing to begin this journey, since her oldest child started Kindergarten the same year. Mrs. Dylla has also taught 6th and 7th grade Religion - coordinating retreats, field trips, and many inspiring service projects such as “Soles for Souls” and “Pjs for St. PJ’s.”     
     Her three children graduated from St. Matthew: Justin ‘12, Mary ‘19, and Travis ‘21 and her sons attended Central Catholic and her daughter went to Antonian College Preparatory HS. Her oldest received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from St. Mary’s University in 2021.
     Mrs. Dylla and her family are very active in the parish. They are lectors, altar servers, and Eucharist Ministers at the 11:15 a.m. Kids’ Mass on Sundays in the Athletic Center and they have co-directed the St. Matthew Catholic Church Family Retreat for nearly 20 years. She and her husband have been married 25 years.
     Mrs. Dylla’s accomplishments and pastimes are creating award-winning yearbooks, earning a State Volleyball championship at IWHS in ‘87, being named All Conference while playing for St. Mary’s University in ‘89, watching her children compete in sports, and regularly coordinating and completing service projects.
A motto she lives by is: “Do your best and let God do the rest.”