Catherine Breslin Carlson (91) was the adopted daughter of Chester Floyd Carlson and Dorris Helen Hudgins Carlson.
Catherine Breslin was born in Milton, Massachusetts, graduating from Boston University with a degree in philosophy. After graduation, she embarked on a successful and varied business career, including assisting the head of Leahy Clinic, working with boat builder George O'Day, traveling for Connecticut General Insurance Company, and serving as registrar and development officer at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
Catherine's interest in spirituality and philosophy led her to a discussion group in Boston, where she met Rochester inventor Chester Carlson and his wife Dorris, and when traveling to Rochester on Tufts business, she often stayed at the Carlson home. After Chester passed away in 1968, Dorris invited Catherine to assist her and continue Dorris and Chester's philanthropic work and support of spiritual interests. When Dorris passed in 1998, Catherine assumed the mantle of Chair of the Chester and Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust, protecting the name and work of Chester Carlson, writing numerous papers, giving several lectures, maintaining his papers and awards, and generously sharing information with serious researchers interested in Chester Carlson. She also assisted in the composition of a book about Chester Carlson and the birth of Xerox, Copies in Seconds by David Owen (Simon & Schuster, 2005).
Under Catherine's direction, Rochester's charities, hospitals, libraries, including the University of Rochester Carlson Library and I-Zone - engaging students in a creative problem-solving space, museums, and institutions of culture and higher learning continued to be served by the Carlson legacy, including the endowment of the William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies at Nazareth College, support of WXXI, and a lasting impact on the YMCA. As with Chester, her contributions were often made anonymously. Catherine's personal initiatives provided educational scholarships to help open the path for future leaders and inventors following the footsteps of Chester Carlson. She also funded the Patent and Trademark Resource Center to assist inventors in patent procedure based on Chester's early experiences as a patent attorney and provided scholarships to RIT's Carlson Imaging Center, Nazareth Academy, and Nazareth Elementary School. Catherine was especially fond of her special projects - providing dictionaries to students in the city's public schools and books to migrant children in Brockport.
At Catherine's request, the Chester and Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust will continue as a permanent, named endowment at Rochester Area Community Foundation to meet the community's changing needs, with special attention to education, libraries and certain other interests of the Trust.
Catherine Carlson left us peacefully at the age of 91 and will be remembered for her lasting impact on the civic and cultural landscape of our community. She is survived by her nephew Peter (Priscilla) Lareau, several other nieces and nephews; her close friends Mary Ann Woodams, Dianne Pettifer, Sister Beth LeValley, JoAnn (Jack) Vienne, Melissa Payne, Betty Strasenburgh, and Tim Tompkins; and many friends in the civic and philanthropic community.
Please join us in remembering Catherine Carlson on Wednesday October 3, 2018 at the Sisters of Saint Joseph Motherhouse, 150 French Road, Rochester, New York 14618. The wake will be held from 4-7 PM, followed by a memorial service. Valet service will be provided.
A wake preceding the funeral mass will be held on Thursday October 4, 2018, from 3-4:30PM at the same location. Valet service will be provided.
Catherine's internment will take place among friends and family in Milton, Massachusetts.
Source: Rochester Democrat And Chronicle from Sep. 30 to Oct. 2, 2018.
Catherine Breslin was born in Milton, Massachusetts, graduating from Boston University with a degree in philosophy. After graduation, she embarked on a successful and varied business career, including assisting the head of Leahy Clinic, working with boat builder George O'Day, traveling for Connecticut General Insurance Company, and serving as registrar and development officer at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
Catherine's interest in spirituality and philosophy led her to a discussion group in Boston, where she met Rochester inventor Chester Carlson and his wife Dorris, and when traveling to Rochester on Tufts business, she often stayed at the Carlson home. After Chester passed away in 1968, Dorris invited Catherine to assist her and continue Dorris and Chester's philanthropic work and support of spiritual interests. When Dorris passed in 1998, Catherine assumed the mantle of Chair of the Chester and Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust, protecting the name and work of Chester Carlson, writing numerous papers, giving several lectures, maintaining his papers and awards, and generously sharing information with serious researchers interested in Chester Carlson. She also assisted in the composition of a book about Chester Carlson and the birth of Xerox, Copies in Seconds by David Owen (Simon & Schuster, 2005).
Under Catherine's direction, Rochester's charities, hospitals, libraries, including the University of Rochester Carlson Library and I-Zone - engaging students in a creative problem-solving space, museums, and institutions of culture and higher learning continued to be served by the Carlson legacy, including the endowment of the William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies at Nazareth College, support of WXXI, and a lasting impact on the YMCA. As with Chester, her contributions were often made anonymously. Catherine's personal initiatives provided educational scholarships to help open the path for future leaders and inventors following the footsteps of Chester Carlson. She also funded the Patent and Trademark Resource Center to assist inventors in patent procedure based on Chester's early experiences as a patent attorney and provided scholarships to RIT's Carlson Imaging Center, Nazareth Academy, and Nazareth Elementary School. Catherine was especially fond of her special projects - providing dictionaries to students in the city's public schools and books to migrant children in Brockport.
At Catherine's request, the Chester and Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust will continue as a permanent, named endowment at Rochester Area Community Foundation to meet the community's changing needs, with special attention to education, libraries and certain other interests of the Trust.
Catherine Carlson left us peacefully at the age of 91 and will be remembered for her lasting impact on the civic and cultural landscape of our community. She is survived by her nephew Peter (Priscilla) Lareau, several other nieces and nephews; her close friends Mary Ann Woodams, Dianne Pettifer, Sister Beth LeValley, JoAnn (Jack) Vienne, Melissa Payne, Betty Strasenburgh, and Tim Tompkins; and many friends in the civic and philanthropic community.
Please join us in remembering Catherine Carlson on Wednesday October 3, 2018 at the Sisters of Saint Joseph Motherhouse, 150 French Road, Rochester, New York 14618. The wake will be held from 4-7 PM, followed by a memorial service. Valet service will be provided.
A wake preceding the funeral mass will be held on Thursday October 4, 2018, from 3-4:30PM at the same location. Valet service will be provided.
Catherine's internment will take place among friends and family in Milton, Massachusetts.
Source: Rochester Democrat And Chronicle from Sep. 30 to Oct. 2, 2018.
Catherine Breslin Carlson (91) was the adopted daughter of Chester Floyd Carlson and Dorris Helen Hudgins Carlson.
Catherine Breslin was born in Milton, Massachusetts, graduating from Boston University with a degree in philosophy. After graduation, she embarked on a successful and varied business career, including assisting the head of Leahy Clinic, working with boat builder George O'Day, traveling for Connecticut General Insurance Company, and serving as registrar and development officer at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
Catherine's interest in spirituality and philosophy led her to a discussion group in Boston, where she met Rochester inventor Chester Carlson and his wife Dorris, and when traveling to Rochester on Tufts business, she often stayed at the Carlson home. After Chester passed away in 1968, Dorris invited Catherine to assist her and continue Dorris and Chester's philanthropic work and support of spiritual interests. When Dorris passed in 1998, Catherine assumed the mantle of Chair of the Chester and Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust, protecting the name and work of Chester Carlson, writing numerous papers, giving several lectures, maintaining his papers and awards, and generously sharing information with serious researchers interested in Chester Carlson. She also assisted in the composition of a book about Chester Carlson and the birth of Xerox, Copies in Seconds by David Owen (Simon & Schuster, 2005).
Under Catherine's direction, Rochester's charities, hospitals, libraries, including the University of Rochester Carlson Library and I-Zone - engaging students in a creative problem-solving space, museums, and institutions of culture and higher learning continued to be served by the Carlson legacy, including the endowment of the William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies at Nazareth College, support of WXXI, and a lasting impact on the YMCA. As with Chester, her contributions were often made anonymously. Catherine's personal initiatives provided educational scholarships to help open the path for future leaders and inventors following the footsteps of Chester Carlson. She also funded the Patent and Trademark Resource Center to assist inventors in patent procedure based on Chester's early experiences as a patent attorney and provided scholarships to RIT's Carlson Imaging Center, Nazareth Academy, and Nazareth Elementary School. Catherine was especially fond of her special projects - providing dictionaries to students in the city's public schools and books to migrant children in Brockport.
At Catherine's request, the Chester and Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust will continue as a permanent, named endowment at Rochester Area Community Foundation to meet the community's changing needs, with special attention to education, libraries and certain other interests of the Trust.
Catherine Carlson left us peacefully at the age of 91 and will be remembered for her lasting impact on the civic and cultural landscape of our community. She is survived by her nephew Peter (Priscilla) Lareau, several other nieces and nephews; her close friends Mary Ann Woodams, Dianne Pettifer, Sister Beth LeValley, JoAnn (Jack) Vienne, Melissa Payne, Betty Strasenburgh, and Tim Tompkins; and many friends in the civic and philanthropic community.
Please join us in remembering Catherine Carlson on Wednesday October 3, 2018 at the Sisters of Saint Joseph Motherhouse, 150 French Road, Rochester, New York 14618. The wake will be held from 4-7 PM, followed by a memorial service. Valet service will be provided.
A wake preceding the funeral mass will be held on Thursday October 4, 2018, from 3-4:30PM at the same location. Valet service will be provided.
Catherine's internment will take place among friends and family in Milton, Massachusetts.
Source: Rochester Democrat And Chronicle from Sep. 30 to Oct. 2, 2018.
Catherine Breslin was born in Milton, Massachusetts, graduating from Boston University with a degree in philosophy. After graduation, she embarked on a successful and varied business career, including assisting the head of Leahy Clinic, working with boat builder George O'Day, traveling for Connecticut General Insurance Company, and serving as registrar and development officer at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
Catherine's interest in spirituality and philosophy led her to a discussion group in Boston, where she met Rochester inventor Chester Carlson and his wife Dorris, and when traveling to Rochester on Tufts business, she often stayed at the Carlson home. After Chester passed away in 1968, Dorris invited Catherine to assist her and continue Dorris and Chester's philanthropic work and support of spiritual interests. When Dorris passed in 1998, Catherine assumed the mantle of Chair of the Chester and Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust, protecting the name and work of Chester Carlson, writing numerous papers, giving several lectures, maintaining his papers and awards, and generously sharing information with serious researchers interested in Chester Carlson. She also assisted in the composition of a book about Chester Carlson and the birth of Xerox, Copies in Seconds by David Owen (Simon & Schuster, 2005).
Under Catherine's direction, Rochester's charities, hospitals, libraries, including the University of Rochester Carlson Library and I-Zone - engaging students in a creative problem-solving space, museums, and institutions of culture and higher learning continued to be served by the Carlson legacy, including the endowment of the William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies at Nazareth College, support of WXXI, and a lasting impact on the YMCA. As with Chester, her contributions were often made anonymously. Catherine's personal initiatives provided educational scholarships to help open the path for future leaders and inventors following the footsteps of Chester Carlson. She also funded the Patent and Trademark Resource Center to assist inventors in patent procedure based on Chester's early experiences as a patent attorney and provided scholarships to RIT's Carlson Imaging Center, Nazareth Academy, and Nazareth Elementary School. Catherine was especially fond of her special projects - providing dictionaries to students in the city's public schools and books to migrant children in Brockport.
At Catherine's request, the Chester and Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust will continue as a permanent, named endowment at Rochester Area Community Foundation to meet the community's changing needs, with special attention to education, libraries and certain other interests of the Trust.
Catherine Carlson left us peacefully at the age of 91 and will be remembered for her lasting impact on the civic and cultural landscape of our community. She is survived by her nephew Peter (Priscilla) Lareau, several other nieces and nephews; her close friends Mary Ann Woodams, Dianne Pettifer, Sister Beth LeValley, JoAnn (Jack) Vienne, Melissa Payne, Betty Strasenburgh, and Tim Tompkins; and many friends in the civic and philanthropic community.
Please join us in remembering Catherine Carlson on Wednesday October 3, 2018 at the Sisters of Saint Joseph Motherhouse, 150 French Road, Rochester, New York 14618. The wake will be held from 4-7 PM, followed by a memorial service. Valet service will be provided.
A wake preceding the funeral mass will be held on Thursday October 4, 2018, from 3-4:30PM at the same location. Valet service will be provided.
Catherine's internment will take place among friends and family in Milton, Massachusetts.
Source: Rochester Democrat And Chronicle from Sep. 30 to Oct. 2, 2018.
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