Cathleen Anne Geyer

Newport, RI - Cathleen Anne Geyer, 60, of 20 Harrison Avenue, Newport, RI, died peacefully at home on Thursday, August 4, 2011. She has been the loving companion of David McDermott of Newport for the past 25 years. Born in Newport, RI on January 9, 1951, she was the daughter of the late Louis W. and Eileen Shreenan Geyer.Following graduation from Rogers High School in 1969, Cathy was employed at Perrottis Drug Store. She began a career in banking, traveling to Boston, Providence and Middletown with positions at Bank of Boston, Newport Hospital Trust Bank and eventually retiring from Fleet Bank. She took great delight in organizing the family Christmas party every year, and prided herself in the thorough research of her family genealogy.Cathy loved life, gardening, and spending time with her family especially her nephews Patrick and Michael Young, Matthew Devine, Daniel Wilkinson, and with her grand nieces and nephews, Jonathan, Christopher, and Riley Young, and Madelyn and Jack Devine. Aunt Cathy will also be missed by Ray, John, Dermot, Jeffrey, Ian, Patrick, Evan and Liam McDermott She is also survived by her sisters Carole Devine and her husband Thomas, Susan Wilkinson and her husband Rian, and Diane Conner and her husband Michael, all of Middletown, RI, and her aunt and uncle John and Elizabeth Shreenan of Southwick, MA, several cousins and their families. Calling hours will be held on Sunday, August 7, 2011, from 4:00-7:00pm in the Memorial Funeral Home, 375 Broadway, Newport, RI.Her funeral will be held on Monday, August 8, 2011, at 8:00 am from the Memorial Funeral Home, 375 Broadway, Newport, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:00 am in Jesus Saviour Church, Broadway and Vernon Avenue, Newport. Burial will be in St. Columba Cemetery in Middletown. In lieu of flowers, the family has kindly asked that donations be made to the American Heart Association, 1 State Street, Suite 200, Providence, RI 02908 or to Woman to Woman Support Network, 164 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840.