Catherine Dill Holliday, 95, of
Kennett Square, died Wednesday, July 20 at the Neighborhood Hospice Center in
West Chester. She was the wife of Robert L. Holliday, Jr., with whom she shared
46 years of marriage. She was predeceased by a daughter, Sarah Delamarter
Holliday, two brothers, Donald Dill and John H. Dill, and a sister, Eleanor
Dill Reiche.
Born in Woodbridge, N.J., Mrs.
Holliday was a daughter of the late Colby Dill and the late Elsie Delamarter
Dill, and stepdaughter of the late Lucy Meyer Dill. A former member of the
Episcopal Church of the Advent in Kennett Square, she enjoyed gardening,
attending the theatre, reading, researching investments, and sewing. She loved
dogs and adopted several. She was a graduate of Tower Hill School in Wilmington,
and Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y.
Survivors include two
daughters, Catherine Holliday Boyce, Escondido, Calif. and Jane B. Holliday,
Sugar Grove, N.C.; two brothers, Colby Dill, Jr., Jefferson, Maine, and George
M. Dill, Houston, Texas; a sister-in-law, Anne Carpenter Barnett Waugh, Post
Falls, Idaho, and a brother-in-law, Leslie D. Joynes, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Other survivors include many nieces and nephews: Anne E. Dill, Wiscasset, Maine,
Colby Dill III, Holliston, Mass., David Dill, Middletown, R.I., James Dill,
Rockport, Maine, John Colby Dill, Shrewsbury, N.J., Peter Dill, The Woodlands,
Texas, Leslie Dill Gillet, Troy, Mich, Gretchen Dill Levine, Granite Bay, Calif.,
Nicholas Lester, Pottstown, Virginia Catherine Loven, Trappe, and Jeannette
Seale, Charlotte Courthouse, Va. She is survived also by many grandnieces and
grandnephews.
A memorial service will be held
in October 2011 in Kennett Square. Memorial contributions may be made to the
Friends Home, 147 West State St., Kennett Square, PA 19348. The Kuzo &
Grieco Funeral Home (610-444-4116) of Kennett Square is assisting the family.
Online condolences may be made
by visiting www.griecocares.com
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