Mrs. CATHERINE CARLISLE BOLIN DURWAY

FORT WORTH -- Catherine Carlisle Bolin Durway died peacefully Tuesday morning, Dec. 3, 2013, one month from her 110th birthday. Service: A Witness to the Resurrection for Catherine Durway will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, 2700 McPherson Ave. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, consideration of contributions to St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, in her memory, is suggested. Born Jan. 9, 1904, to Gertrude and Charles Hector Bolin in Naples, Texas, Catherine's family soon moved to Blackwell, where she spent her childhood. She began her life in Fort Worth as a senior high student at Texas Women's College, which later became Texas Wesleyan College. In 1923 she married a native of Fort Worth, Malcolm Robert Durway, who died in 1990. As a young woman, Catherine was an outstanding athlete, playing basketball and running track, easily outrunning her sons until they were in junior high. She was an excellent seamstress, making western shirts for her boys, sport coats for her husband, and all wearing apparel for herself. She knitted sweaters, scarves and hats. She enjoyed the outdoors, planting trees and shrubs that she acquired when visiting other places. Within her last year, she still looked forward to her walk in the neighborhood. She saw travel move from horse and buggy to rockets to the moon, and she took her first trans-Atlantic flight at 80, when she flew to Belgium to visit her son. Catherine kept up with changes in society as she lived from women having no vote to a woman running for president. Her life spanned the tenure of 18 U.S. presidents, and at 100 she was still reading biographies of their lives and their politics. She kept up with the oil business from the time her brother Houston invested in it, and she opposed "fracking." She was able to maintain her interest in the world until the last few weeks of her remarkable life. Catherine was a longtime member of St. Stephen Presbyterian Church. She served as president of the Women of the Church and volunteered on a number of committees. Well after her 100th birthday, she was sewing with a group of women at the church. Beginning in 1928 Catherine was active in the Fort Worth Woman's Club, attending weekly bridge club luncheons until her health prevented her from getting out. The family appreciates the dedication and caring shown to Catherine by Dr. Allan Kelly, ResCare and the Berkeley neighbors. In addition to her husband and son, Malcolm Bolin Durway, she was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Houston Bolin; and sister, Ernestine Bolin. Survivors: Catherine is survived by her sons, Joseph Robert Durway of Fort Worth and Daniel Lindsey Durway and his wife, Flo, of Raleigh, N.C.; grandchildren, Daniel Mark Durway and wife, Julie, of Cary, N.C., Kristin Whitesides and husband, Greg, of Magnolia, N.C., and Lindsey Bolin Durway and wife, Andrea, of St. Louis, Mo.; and great-grandchildren, William Mark Durway, Matthew Lindsey Durway, Claire Doyle Durway, Charlotte Ann Durway and Audrey Eleanor Durway. To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Mrs. CATHERINE CARLISLE BOLIN DURWAY please visit our Sympathy Store.