Catherine, or Kathleen as she preferred, was the second of five children born in Derry City to bookkeeper John Patterson and his first wife Jean Patterson King, both from County Donegal.
In 1886, following her mother's 1884 death from childbirth, her father sailed to Montreal. There he joined his brother-in-law William King's furniture business, leaving the five children with family in Ireland.
John remarried in 1887, returning to Ireland for his children. In 1888 he was made partner in Renaud, King & Patterson - Marchand de Meubles, the largest furniture store in Montreal (at Guy and Saint Catherine's Streets).
Kathleen's future husband, John Dunlop, immigrated to Montreal from Derry in 1905 and worked for the C&P Railway Pension Office for 37 years.
Upon seeing a photo of Kathleen in a newspaper illustrating a literary reading entitled 'The Girl in the Red Dress,' John told his friends, "That's the girl I'm going to marry," and did so in 1910.
They later learned that Kathleen had been born at 20 Marlborough Terrace, Derry, the exact block where John's father's grocery store was located two decades later.
The young couple settled in Ste Anne-de-Bellevue where their three children were born - William Patterson, Margaret Jean and Kathleen Elizabeth. They later relocated to Brock Avenue in Montreal-Ouest.
Kathleen and her sister Jean had graduated from Normal School (Teachers' College) during the 1890s. She was a French teacher at Montreal West High School for decades, then founded and managed Twin Fir Camp for Girls in the Laurentians near Ste Agathe (1930-1950).
Kathleen was a health food advocate years before it became popular - serving oatmeal each morning, insisting her campers choose brown bread over white, only allowing 1/2 a candy bar weekly and stressing the benefits of carrot juice although not serving it at camp!
She was independent and active up until the end, designing her own home in the 1950s, spending each winter in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and returning to Ireland several times to visit her Grier cousins.
About 1960 she sponsored Gaston, a young man from Tunisia, through CrossRoads Africa, helping with his college education. He flew back to speak at her Memorial Service in 1976.
CrossRoads Africa was the predecessor to the Peace Corps. And coincidently founded by the Rev. James H. Robinson, her son-in-law's classmate at Union Theological Seminary. Jim was 1938 class president; Ralph Carmichael was his veep.
Just before Christmas 1976 Kathleen slipped into a coma and died two weeks later, peacefully at age 96. Her hair was still blond and her skin as smooth as a baby's.
In 1886, following her mother's 1884 death from childbirth, her father sailed to Montreal. There he joined his brother-in-law William King's furniture business, leaving the five children with family in Ireland.
John remarried in 1887, returning to Ireland for his children. In 1888 he was made partner in Renaud, King & Patterson - Marchand de Meubles, the largest furniture store in Montreal (at Guy and Saint Catherine's Streets).
Kathleen's future husband, John Dunlop, immigrated to Montreal from Derry in 1905 and worked for the C&P Railway Pension Office for 37 years.
Upon seeing a photo of Kathleen in a newspaper illustrating a literary reading entitled 'The Girl in the Red Dress,' John told his friends, "That's the girl I'm going to marry," and did so in 1910.
They later learned that Kathleen had been born at 20 Marlborough Terrace, Derry, the exact block where John's father's grocery store was located two decades later.
The young couple settled in Ste Anne-de-Bellevue where their three children were born - William Patterson, Margaret Jean and Kathleen Elizabeth. They later relocated to Brock Avenue in Montreal-Ouest.
Kathleen and her sister Jean had graduated from Normal School (Teachers' College) during the 1890s. She was a French teacher at Montreal West High School for decades, then founded and managed Twin Fir Camp for Girls in the Laurentians near Ste Agathe (1930-1950).
Kathleen was a health food advocate years before it became popular - serving oatmeal each morning, insisting her campers choose brown bread over white, only allowing 1/2 a candy bar weekly and stressing the benefits of carrot juice although not serving it at camp!
She was independent and active up until the end, designing her own home in the 1950s, spending each winter in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and returning to Ireland several times to visit her Grier cousins.
About 1960 she sponsored Gaston, a young man from Tunisia, through CrossRoads Africa, helping with his college education. He flew back to speak at her Memorial Service in 1976.
CrossRoads Africa was the predecessor to the Peace Corps. And coincidently founded by the Rev. James H. Robinson, her son-in-law's classmate at Union Theological Seminary. Jim was 1938 class president; Ralph Carmichael was his veep.
Just before Christmas 1976 Kathleen slipped into a coma and died two weeks later, peacefully at age 96. Her hair was still blond and her skin as smooth as a baby's.
Catherine, or Kathleen as she preferred, was the second of five children born in Derry City to bookkeeper John Patterson and his first wife Jean Patterson King, both from County Donegal.
In 1886, following her mother's 1884 death from childbirth, her father sailed to Montreal. There he joined his brother-in-law William King's furniture business, leaving the five children with family in Ireland.
John remarried in 1887, returning to Ireland for his children. In 1888 he was made partner in Renaud, King & Patterson - Marchand de Meubles, the largest furniture store in Montreal (at Guy and Saint Catherine's Streets).
Kathleen's future husband, John Dunlop, immigrated to Montreal from Derry in 1905 and worked for the C&P Railway Pension Office for 37 years.
Upon seeing a photo of Kathleen in a newspaper illustrating a literary reading entitled 'The Girl in the Red Dress,' John told his friends, "That's the girl I'm going to marry," and did so in 1910.
They later learned that Kathleen had been born at 20 Marlborough Terrace, Derry, the exact block where John's father's grocery store was located two decades later.
The young couple settled in Ste Anne-de-Bellevue where their three children were born - William Patterson, Margaret Jean and Kathleen Elizabeth. They later relocated to Brock Avenue in Montreal-Ouest.
Kathleen and her sister Jean had graduated from Normal School (Teachers' College) during the 1890s. She was a French teacher at Montreal West High School for decades, then founded and managed Twin Fir Camp for Girls in the Laurentians near Ste Agathe (1930-1950).
Kathleen was a health food advocate years before it became popular - serving oatmeal each morning, insisting her campers choose brown bread over white, only allowing 1/2 a candy bar weekly and stressing the benefits of carrot juice although not serving it at camp!
She was independent and active up until the end, designing her own home in the 1950s, spending each winter in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and returning to Ireland several times to visit her Grier cousins.
About 1960 she sponsored Gaston, a young man from Tunisia, through CrossRoads Africa, helping with his college education. He flew back to speak at her Memorial Service in 1976.
CrossRoads Africa was the predecessor to the Peace Corps. And coincidently founded by the Rev. James H. Robinson, her son-in-law's classmate at Union Theological Seminary. Jim was 1938 class president; Ralph Carmichael was his veep.
Just before Christmas 1976 Kathleen slipped into a coma and died two weeks later, peacefully at age 96. Her hair was still blond and her skin as smooth as a baby's.
In 1886, following her mother's 1884 death from childbirth, her father sailed to Montreal. There he joined his brother-in-law William King's furniture business, leaving the five children with family in Ireland.
John remarried in 1887, returning to Ireland for his children. In 1888 he was made partner in Renaud, King & Patterson - Marchand de Meubles, the largest furniture store in Montreal (at Guy and Saint Catherine's Streets).
Kathleen's future husband, John Dunlop, immigrated to Montreal from Derry in 1905 and worked for the C&P Railway Pension Office for 37 years.
Upon seeing a photo of Kathleen in a newspaper illustrating a literary reading entitled 'The Girl in the Red Dress,' John told his friends, "That's the girl I'm going to marry," and did so in 1910.
They later learned that Kathleen had been born at 20 Marlborough Terrace, Derry, the exact block where John's father's grocery store was located two decades later.
The young couple settled in Ste Anne-de-Bellevue where their three children were born - William Patterson, Margaret Jean and Kathleen Elizabeth. They later relocated to Brock Avenue in Montreal-Ouest.
Kathleen and her sister Jean had graduated from Normal School (Teachers' College) during the 1890s. She was a French teacher at Montreal West High School for decades, then founded and managed Twin Fir Camp for Girls in the Laurentians near Ste Agathe (1930-1950).
Kathleen was a health food advocate years before it became popular - serving oatmeal each morning, insisting her campers choose brown bread over white, only allowing 1/2 a candy bar weekly and stressing the benefits of carrot juice although not serving it at camp!
She was independent and active up until the end, designing her own home in the 1950s, spending each winter in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and returning to Ireland several times to visit her Grier cousins.
About 1960 she sponsored Gaston, a young man from Tunisia, through CrossRoads Africa, helping with his college education. He flew back to speak at her Memorial Service in 1976.
CrossRoads Africa was the predecessor to the Peace Corps. And coincidently founded by the Rev. James H. Robinson, her son-in-law's classmate at Union Theological Seminary. Jim was 1938 class president; Ralph Carmichael was his veep.
Just before Christmas 1976 Kathleen slipped into a coma and died two weeks later, peacefully at age 96. Her hair was still blond and her skin as smooth as a baby's.
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