Katherina Kingsley Talbot, widow of the late Major Thomas Marshall Fuge of the King's Royal Rifles, died peacefully on 31 December 1951 at her residence, 25 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, London. She was 92 years of age. Cremains to be interred in Lisburn, Northern Ireland where she and then Captain Fuge were married and where they resided during the recent war.

Katherina was born in Centreville, Michigan, the youngest daughter of John Walpole Talbot and Adeline Ketcham. The Talbots were of Irish ancestry. Her father John was born in Templemore, County Tipperary.

At the age of 18, Katherina went to live with the family of her uncle, Charles Talbot, who had become a successful textile merchant in Lowell, Massachusetts. Her uncle Thomas, founder of Talbot Mills in Billerica, was at this time serving as Governor of Massachusetts.

Katherine was married in 1884 at the residence of her uncle Charles in Lowell to James Mathewson Ewart, brother of Richard Hooker Ewart who had married Charles Talbot's daughter Fanny ten years previous. Both Richard and James were acting as New York agents for the family firm of Wm. Ewart and Son, linen manufacturers based in Belfast. After the marriage James and Katherina took up residence in New York. She and cousin Fanny often traveled to Belfast to visit with the Ewarts and both took part in social and charitable events organized by the family

When James Mathewson Ewart died in Manhattan in August of 1898 of Typhoid fever, Katherina traveled once more to Belfast to be with her in-laws. Likely it was they who introduced her to her second husband, Captain Thomas William Marshall Fuge, of the 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifles. He was at the time serving in South Africa as deputy commissioner of the police in Pretoria. After their 1901 marriage in Lisburn they took up residence in South Africa, where Katherina became involved in post-war service welfare work. Thomas co-authored a detailed report on the unemployment situation in Pretoria which earned for him a recommendation from General Botha, and he was in 1909 appointed by Winston Churchill to serve as Divisional Officer for the Board of Trade Labor Exchange in Ireland. He and Katherina soon took up residence in Dublin. While in Dublin she became acquainted with Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Katherina became an active member of Lady Aberdeen's Women's National Health Organization.

When war broke out, the Major was seconded to the 5th Battalion, King's Royal Rifles and served as president of the Corps. He and Katherina took up residence in London where she again took part in service welfare work. During the last war they resided at Derryvolgie House, Lisburn. They worshiped in Lisburn Cathedral and took a keen interest in parochial affairs, her husband being a most useful member of the select vestry for several years.

When the American troops arrived in 1942, Katherina became the "mother" of the group of American ladies resident in Northern Ireland who work voluntarily at the American Red Cross club in Belfast. She and her ladies served as volunteers in the canteen. When Eleanor Roosevelt came to Belfast on her tour, she met Katherina and signed her birthday book, offering congratulations to Mrs. Fuge for having been "in the service of three wars."