MANCHESTER, CT - Catherine (Boyle) Brown, 97 of Manchester, CT died on January 23, 2015 at the assisted living facility Mountain Laurel in Glastonbury, CT. where she had resided for approximately one month.
Kay was born on January 10, 1918 in Dalton, N.H. and was one of eleven children born to Annie Boyle and William Boyle. She is survived by one sister, Irene Lynde of Littleton, N.H. along with many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by brothers Lewis Boyle, Bernard Boyle, William Boyle and Clarence Boyle and sisters Rena Savage, Agnes Palmer, Marion Bishop, Margaret Boyle and Hilda Corrigan.
Kay graduated from Dalton High School in 1936 and then worked at the Mount Cranmore Inn in North Conway, N.H. where she "skied every afternoon". She subsequently worked in Boston before moving to the Hartford, CT area where she worked at Aetna Insurance for years and then worked as an administrative assistant at Damato Enterprises in Manchester, CT. She also worked a second job in the office at Fountain Village where she resided in Manchester, and she retired from her jobs after she reached 90.
Kay enjoyed traveling primarily throughout the northeast and especially enjoyed trips to Ogunquit, ME and walking the Marginal Way organized and accompanied by her niece Daryl Corrigan Buswell where they were joined by other family members. For decades Kay was caring and generous with her nieces and nephews. Numerous nieces and nephews helped Kay during her last year of declining health.
Services will be scheduled for the spring, followed by burial at the John's River cemetery in Dalton, N.H. in the Boyle family lot.
In keeping with Kay's enjoyment of lighthouses along the New England coast, contributions may be made to Friends of Nubble 186 York St., York, Maine 03909 or to the Dalton Congregational Church, c/o Jean Abbott, 770 Dalton Road, Dalton, N.H. 03598.