Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Respess, Katherine Callahan May 21, 2008
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Virginian-Pilot  June 12, 2008
NORFOLK - Katherine Callahan Respess, born March 24, 1923, in Norfolk, died May 
21, 2008, at the Colonnades in Charlottesville, Va., following a short illness.

She was predeceased by her parents, John T. and Katherine Walsh Callahan, and by 
her brother and his wife, John T. Jr. and Anne Marie Callahan.

She is survived by her brother, William Callahan and his wife, Ellen, and by her 
children, Marie Louise and John O'Hara and their children, Virginia and Joseph; 
Kay and Thomas Lanahan and their children, Ashley Ballard, Joshua and Matthew 
Lanahan; Elizabeth and Howard McDowell and their children, Ian and Sophie; James 
Respess and Wendie Price and their children, Nathan and Damaris Rodgers. She has 
seven great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her nieces and nephews and a 
special friend and adopted family member, Zinka Ziebell of Berlin, Germany.

She graduated from Holy Trinity High School in 1940, and attended the Norfolk 
Division of William and Mary. During World War II, she worked at the Fifth Naval 
District Accounting Office. She was married to James Respess in 1945, and moved to 
Charlottesville.

She was active on several boards, including the University of Virginia Hospital 
Auxiliary, United Way, Information and Referral, Mental Health and Red Cross. She 
also worked with the Focus Flea Market and the Martha Jefferson Hospital 
Auxiliary.

She and her friend, Kay Hollifield, opened The Yarn Shop in 1974, a business that 
they ran for 14 years.

She was a member of Holy Comforter Catholic Church.

The funeral Mass will be celebrated in Sacred Heart Catholic Church Sunday, June 
22, at 4 p.m. by the Rev. Father John J. Dorgan with interment Monday at 10 a.m. 
in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery by the Rev. Daniel N. Klem. The family will recite 
the rosary in the Norfolk chapel of H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Saturday at 7 p.m. 
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Edmarc 
Hospice for Children or to a charity of one's choice.

The family would like to thank the staff at the Colonnades, Hospice of the 
Piedmont and University of Virginia's Palliative Care Unit and the NN ICU for 
their gracious and compassionate care. Online condolences may be sent to the 
family at hdoliver.com.

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