Katharine Lattimore Young McCaw walked into her Savior’s arms on May 29, 2024. She was born
in New York City, New York, on March 18, 1930, to Alleyne and George Young. In 1946 she
graduated from Northampton School for Girls in Northampton, Massachusetts, and enrolled in
Westhampton College for Women, a part of the University of Richmond. Two years later, she
transferred to Baylor University in Waco and earned a BS in Education. While a student she
was a member of the university’s water ballet team. Katharine met Mack McCaw on a blind
date to a NOZE Brotherhood event at the Raleigh Hotel. It was a match! Following their
graduation, they married Dec. 27, 1950. She is one of sixty-four Baylor alumni in her family,
with her grandmother being the first woman elected to the Board of Trustees.
After working twenty years in Dallas, Mack bought an insurance agency in Greenville, so the
family moved. Katharine then returned to college, and in twelve months she earned her
Masters in Education with an emphasis in special education from East Texas State University.
She taught at Greenville High School, as well as Paris Junior College when it was located in the
Henson building on Lee Street. Leaving the classroom, she worked for MHMR, placing and
supervising clients in their jobs. Then she managed a showroom at the World Trade Center in
Dallas for several years. When she finally retired, she turned her attention to the community;
she was an organizing member of the local American Association of University Women, always
chairing the scholarship committee; the Audie Murphy/Cotton Museum; the Edward Buckley
Chapter, DAR; and the Cotton Patch Quilt Guild, Cotton Strippers, and Sunbonnet Sues quilt
circles. She was also an active member of the Garden Study Club, Rejebian Book Review Club,
and Kavanaugh United Methodist Church.
Her husband, Mack, preceded her in death in 1985. Katharine is survived by her sister, Jean
Harrison of Pennsylvania, as well as four children and their spouses: Bill and LaVonne McCaw,
Alleyne and Bill Coleman, Kelly and Ron Greiner, and Mary McCaw; plus ten grandchildren and
seventeen great-grandchildren.
The Lord calls us to serve Him, and she certainly did. Not only did she have the spirit of
hospitality, but she also quietly and unpretentiously helped those in need. She has set an
example of servanthood worthy to follow: 1 Peter 4: 8-9: “Above all, love each other deeply,
because love covers a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.”
A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, June 8, 2024 at 11:30 am in the Lynch Funeral Service Chapel in Greenville, Texas.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Community Service
Committee of the Cotton Patch Quilt Guild, PO Box 8953, Greenville, TX 75403.
