Catherine was the only child of my Great-uncle Jack O'Connell & Great-aunt Winifred Doherty O'Connell, the niece of my Grandmother Elizabeth O'Connell Walsh. Although Catherine spent her teenage years at her Grandmother, Mrs. Doherty's farm in Bell she always considered San Pedro her hometown. She graduated Bishop Conaty Our Lady of Loretto High School, in Los Angeles. She worked during WWII at the AT&SF Railway Office, in Downtown Los Angeles, where a coworker Eppie introduced her to Eppie's fiancée's brother, Norman Montreuil. The rest is history!
I miss you Catherine. After the passing of our cousin Kathleen O'Connell Gleason, in Abbeyfeale, Ireland, you were the last person on earth to remind me of my mother, your 1st cousin Loretta Walsh Bennett.
My condolences to Catherine & Norman's children, their spouses, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, & extended families.
Cousin John
