Catherine Patricia (Gilligan) Smyth

Friday, Dec. 05, 2014

atherton, calif. — Catherine Patricia “Patsy” (Gilligan) Smyth, 95, passed away Oct. 22, 2014. 

Smyth was born in Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City to Ada M. (Kronner) Gilligan and George E. Gilligan. She lived with her grandmother, Bridget (Griffin) Kronner, and attended Judge Memorial Catholic High School (Class of 1936) and St Mary’s of the Wasatch college. She completed her studies at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. She married Edward M. “Ted” Smyth in the Cathedral of the Madeleine on Sept. 9, 1941. She had a special affection for the Religious of the Sacred Heart and was devoted to the Children of Mary.

Smyth was preceded in death by husband Edward. She is survived by all seven of her children: Sheila Mary, Kathleen Anne (Art), Patricia Collette (Marv), Daniel Patrick (Anne), Maureen Agnes, Thomas Gilligan (Peggy) and Joseph Healy (Bea); 15 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at the Church of the Nativity.