MARY CATHERINE BRYANT named for her two great-grandmothers was called CATHERINE. I am the oldest surviving of the grandchildren of the Charles Henry Harvey family. Catherine was 7 years older than I. I have a picture of her and her sister Lillian taken on Easter Sunday, 1925 at our Grandmother's. Her mother was the oldest child in the family, and my father, the oldest son.

After Catherine finished high school at Fleetwood in 1937 she worked for a few months at the telephone office"Central" at my Grandmother Harvey's home and by November 1937 she was working as my mother's clerk in the Roseland Post office. I have a picture in November 1937 which I gave Paul Saunders for his book of her and my sister Dotsy standing in the middle of the old road and my father is seen getting ready to build the new Post Office which we moved into in March 1938, and the government would only allow $15.00 rent/mo. and would not pay for an electric wire, nor would they provide a safe. The money orders were kept locked in my mother's trunk which held about 3 bushels of chestnuts which paid her tuition to Sweet Briar College in 1919.

The Post Office Inspector in Roanoke, Virginia told Catherine that she was to bright to be staying in this position and made arrangements for her to take a civil service exam and she ended in Washington as a supervisor in the Signal Corp after January 1942 after I returned to
college my freshman year. Mother had another clerk who left in 1943 and I had to work all summer long because the government would not pay a member of my mother's family. Quite unfair, but my father was working in Richmond and my mother needed a clerk, for she had had an operation in 1940 for breast cancer.

Catherine and her friend were in Florida in March 1945 when she had soaped her hair and moments later when she rinsed it, she went down to the bottom in front of the home.

I do not know what the death record showed, but it was a tragic loss for our family and my mother felt like she had lost a daughter and six month later, almost to the day we lost our Mother. Only one sibling survives and Norma Lee Bryant Holland has had an interesting career, as an Air Force nurse, a nurse in industry, and a public health nurse. She presently lives in Charlottesville, Va.

I do not know whether you are a relative, or are just interested in cemeteries.
Mary Elizabeth De Mallie, Bloomfield, N.J. dated 1/18/2013