Allegheny-Westmoreland-Washington County PA Archives Obituaries.....Waddell, Catherine     Gilmore April 20, 2004

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McKeesport Daily News April 20/2004
CATHERINE WADDELL                                                               
Cathrrine Waddell, 78, of Baltimore, Md., formerly of Glassport, died Tuesday, 
April 20,2004, in Jefferson Hills Manor Inc. A retired telephone operator from 
Bell telephone in Baltimore, she was a member of the Bell Pioneers.             
Born in McKeesport, May 6, 1925, she was a daughter of the late Charles and 
Ellen McCarthy Gilmoreand wife of the late William Waddell. She is suvived by a 
niece and caregiver, Jodie Gilmore of Lincoln; other nieces and nephews         
Friends will be received Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. in the Daniel F. 
Bekavac Funeral Home, 4504 Walnut St. Versailles. A blessing service will be 
offered there Tuesday at noon by the Rev. Daniel Valentine. Interment will 
follow in Jefferson Memerial Park, Plesant Hills.

Additional Comments:
Kay Waddell lived most of her life in Baltimore Md.,where she came as a young 
woman, she worked at american can company before changing jobs to work at Bell 
telephone.She had no birth children of her own, but adopted a girl whome she 
disavowed some years later.She could not forgive the things her daughter and 
husband did.She never divorced her husband Bill who died alone,She paid for 
Bills funeral but did not attend any services.Kay helped her sister Rose raise 
two boys Tom and Edd.Kay arranged and paid for funeral services for her sisters 
and some brothers.She liked to control the people she loved and if things did 
not go her way she was mad.For instance when her nephew Tom died(he made his 
own arangements which included creamation) His wife followed his instruction to 
the letter and Kay never spoke to her for years until she got sick and couldn't 
remember.Kay wanted to handel the arangements herself just like she had been 
used to doing for everyone else.I knew Kay for 45 years and she always called 
Ed when she needed something done.Though the years he was there for her when 
things broke or rotted,than she stopped calling.Then a few years before her 
death she started getting things mixed up, like telling stories useing the 
wrong peoples names, or telling memories which were totally wrong.But no one 
corrected her because they didn't want to argue with her, because she was 
always right,even when she was wrong.Kay always wanted what was right for kids, 
even if she didn't like the parents.Kay stoped calling Ed the last two years of 
her life,we stoped in on her once a month and she insisted she didn't need 
anything.I met her niece by marriage coming out once(she had cleaned and 
written out her bills)Kay said she hadn't seen the girl for weeks, when in 
reality the girl was there every week.I just thought as Kay aged she got us 
mixed up with other people.Like every time we were down to see her she always 
conplained she had sent money to her brother Eddies family because there was no 
work there and they needed money.Later after she got sick I was told this was 
not true.I know she and her sister sent money to Eddie way back because I 
mailed some checks, but I think she mixed it up and was talking about another 
time and place.What are people suposed to believe when a person always had it 
together and suddenly didn't.You don't want to believe that their mine is 
slipping.I loved Kay very much and I don't regreat anything we did for 
her,wheather it was hanging wallpapper, painting or repireing what had fallen 
down.

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