Catherine sadly died on 30 October 2022, I will never forget when Catherine first joined the club. It was 7 November 1993. I was leading a walk from East Grinstead and knew it was going to be very muddy. Catherine and a friend of hers met us at the station and I said I didn't think they would make it in their unsuitable attire. Her friend left us and went for a walk in St James's Park but Catherine persisted bravely. She was wearing a fashionable three quarter length overcoat and fairly high healed shoes but got through all the mud and every time I met her for the rest of her life she recalled the conversation we had at the beginning of her first  walk with the club. She went on to become a leader herself and served two years on the committee. The number of ramblers on her early walks gave evidence of how popular Catherine was - she volunteered to lead the Good Friday walk  in her first year in the club and when we did the walkout on New year's Day 23 people joined us. Then on Good Friday itself there were 43 ramblers which I think remains the highest number on a Club walk.

In 1999 and following years Catherine jointly led walks with Chris McNicholas in seaside areas including Worthing, Angmering and Deal. Those walks on the summer programmes provided opportunities to swim in the sea which Catherine loved to do.

From 2008 to 2013 Catherine joined Maurice Hickmn and a small group of other members on the long distance trek known as the Camino of St James (or "Jacobite Camino" to Compostella. Maurice provided photographs taken on several legs of the pilgrimage and some of these can ve seen HERE

My pilgrim days had come to an end by the time she joined the Arundel and Brighton Ecumenical Walking Pilgrimage but I remember seeing the photograph of her on the Pilgrims Live website in 2019. I couldn't open it when they tried to attach it to the recent pilgrim e mail.

Apart from her walks with the club she was a devout and active Catholic and played a leading part in several organisations, mainly connected with the pro ljfe movement. These are described in more detail in the special obituary published by the Good Counsel Organisation  reproduced in the PDF that can be seen on clicking HERE.