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Note: Birth information: From information below and family.
Census records: See notes under her father.
Marriage information: From family.
Catherine graduated from the Methuen High School, Methuen, Massachusetts in 1948 - then called the Searles High School. She graduated from Fisher Jr. College in Boston, MA in 1950. She worked as a stenographer for the Andrew Wilson Company in Lawrence, MA, from 1950-1954. For much of her married life she was a homemaker. In August 1978, she began working as a secretery, in Lynn, MA, at the Lynn Day Work Activity Center - a work center for retarted adults. She retired in August 1998.
During her life Cathy (my Mom) lived in Nashua, NH, Methuen, MA, Belmont, MA, Amesbury, MA, Lynnfield, MA, and Lynn, MA.
She was raised a Baptist but became an Episcopalian upon her marriage to my father who was an Episcopal Priest.
When the Episcopal Diocese of Boston shut down and sold the congregation's church building in 2010, Cathy and the other members of St. Alban's Episcopal Church rented space at the nearby Bethany Congregational Church where they continued to conduct their Episcopal church services.
Cathy's funeral service was conducted by the Reverand Evan Mwangi, an Episcopal Priest. He was her pastor and a great friend of the family. Readings where done by Jonathan Gray and Timothy Etzel, two of her grandchildren. Her daughter, Debbie Gray, also spoke. Hymns sung were "Amazing Grace", "In The Garden", and "How Great Thou Art".
Obiturary: From the Cuffe-McGinn Funeral Home website;
" Catherine G. Etzel
June 16, 1931 - February 25, 2019
Mrs. Catherine G. (Gumb) Etzel, age 87, of Lynn, died from Leukemia on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019 at Mass. General Hospital, Boston, after a brief illness. She was the wife of the late Rev. Robert W. Etzel. She was the mother of Robert W. Etzel, Jr. of Turner, ME, the late David M. Etzel, Deborah E. Gray of Turner, ME, and Bruce W. Etzel and his wife Brenda of Danvers. She was also the sister of the late Wallace "Sonny" Gumb, and Barbara Ericson of Saco, ME, sister-in-law of Virginia Wright of Chelmsford, cousin of Annabel Aldrich of Dedham, grandmother of Jason A. Gray, Jonathan D. Gray, Timothy J. Etzel and Cait E. Etzel, great-grandmother of Leilah S. Gray, and leaves several nieces and nephews. Born in Nashua, NH, on June 16, 1931, she was the daughter of the late Wallace R. and Mary (Gordon) Gumb. She was a longtime resident of Lynn. She graduated from Fisher Junior College, Boston with an Associate's Degree. Cathy was a secretary for Lynn Human Service/S.T.R.I.V.E. of Lynn for over 18 years. She was an active member of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Lynn for over 40 years. Cathy had served on the Alter Guild, was a lay reader, and helped administer Communion. Cathy's family wishes to thank the doctors, nurses and other caregivers at Mass. General Hospital, Lunder Building, 10th Floor, for their excellent care. Her funeral service will be held on Friday at 11 AM in the Bethany Congregational Church, 410 Eastern Avenue, Lynn. Visiting hours in the Cuffe-McGinn Funeral Home 157 Maple Street, Lynn on Thursday from 4-7 PM. Burial in Forest Hill Cemetary, Lynnfield will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations in Cathy's memory may be made to Mass. General Hospital Development Office, 125 Nashua Street, Suite 540, Boston, MA 02114.
Burial: Forest Hill Cemetery, Lynnfield, Massachusetts.
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