CATHERINE RUSSELL MUNGER DAUNOY, passed away on Tuesday, the 29th of June 2010.She was born on the 8th of October 1915. Her parents and grandparents were early settlers of Pasadena, Texas and Bellaire, Texas. Catherine was a native Houstonian, graduating from San Jacinto High School. She was an alumnae of Texas Women's University. Mrs. Daunoy was a member of St. Martin's Episcopal Church, Pine Shadows Civic Club, the Blue Bird Circle, and participated for many years in the Sing-A-Ling Choral Group. She is remembered for her love of oil painting and antiques. She is preceded in death by her husband, Elden Daunoy; her parents, Charles Russell and Ernestine Scharpe Munger; and her sisters, Bess Pushee', Ernestine Alpha, Dorothy De Groat; and their spouses, and her nephew, Rev. Karl Choate. Mrs. Daunoy is survived by her daughter, Valerie Sherrill and her husband Jack; her grandson, Russell Sherrill and his wife Jill of Houston; her granddaughter, Dinah Christiansen and her husband Tom of Copenhagen, Denmark; and her great grandchildren, Luke Sherrill and June Catherine Christiansen. She is also survived by many loving nieces and nephews, Sharon Marino and her husband Anthony, Joan Pushee', Ann Choate, Patricia Hamer and her husband Thurston, Suzanne Johnston and her husband Harris, Lyn Boyd and her husband Travis, Ken Alpha and his wife Janet, Ken Tyson and his wife Sue, and Mike Tyson and his wife Judy, and their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, a large and loving family. Catherine will be greatly missed. Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening on Wednesday, the 7th of July, in the Drawing Room of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.The memorial service is to be conducted at two o'clock in the afternoon on Thursday, the 8th of July, at St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 717 Sage Road in Houston, where the Rev. Martin J. Bastian, Senior Associate Rector for Pastoral Care, is to officiate. Immediately following the service, all are invited to greet the family during a reception in the adjacent Bagby Parish Hall. Prior to the service, the family will have gathered for a graveside service and interment at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston. For those desiring, and in lieu of customary remembrances, kindly consider a memorial contribution to St. Martin's Episcopal Church Library, 717 Sage Road, Houston, TX, 77056; to the Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 900 Portway Drive, Houston, TX, 77024; the Blue Bird Circle, 615 West Alabama Street, Houston, TX, 77006; or to the charity of one's choice.
Published in Houston Chronicle on July 4, 2010