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O'CONNOR, Mary Catherine Leo The O'Connor family regrets to announce the death of Mary Catherine Leo O'Connor at the Kingston General Hospital on Saturday, November 3rd, 2007. Mary was born June 2, 1916 in Gananoque, Ontario and was predeceased by her parents Dr. Fergus J. O'Connor Sr. and Frances Keating, and her seven siblings: Norah (Milton Laughland), Margaret (Allan Doherty), Maurice (Jean Davidson), Eileen (C. William McDougall), Fergus J. Jr. (Connie Davidson and later Jean Davidson O'Connor), Frances “Pat“ and Sheila. She was predeceased by her nieces and nephews: John Laughland, Jane McDougall Lanthier, Mary O'Connor Kaiser, Paul O'Connor, Nancy Doherty Taylor, Charles McDougall, Connie O'Connor, Maurice O' Connor Jr. Mary was educated at Notre Dome Convent in Kingston and graduated from Queen's University in 1938 with Honours. She then obtained an advanced degree in Library Science from the University of Toronto. Mary initially worked as a librarian at The Nylon Plant in Kingston and later at the U. of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Subsequently she joined The National Defence College and The Canadian Army Staff College. She was the Chief Librarian for many years up to her retirement in 1978. During her time with the College she travelled with the various Defence College courses to over 72 countries and met many world leaders in the course of her official duties. Mary was a member of the Cataraqui Golf and Curling Club, the Newman Club Alumni Association at Queen's University and the Board of Directors of the Kingston Library. She served on the Board of Directors of the Hotel Dieu Hospital and was their liaison to the Kingston General Hospital Board. Mary will be missed by her many nieces and nephews: Norah's family: Jim, Bill, Milton and Margaret Brennan; Margaret's family: Sheila Carriere, Ellen Schaffeler, Ann Ross, Margaret, Allan and Christopher; Maurice's family: Fergus, Brenda Murphy and Maureen Allin; Eileen's family: Susan Gagnon Gingras and Deborah Fischer; Fergus' family: Michael, Fergus (Chip), and Patrick. Mary will also be mourned by all of the spouses and her nieces and nephews living and deceased, and by their children. Family was always important to Mary and as her family we remembered the aunt who provided many of us with the opportunity to spend wonderful summer vacations surrounded by family. She made available to us her second cottage, “Secundus“ at Lost Bay on the Gananoque River where we were able to take our children to spend time with their aunts and uncles and cousins, thus fostering in them a keener sense of the greater family to which they belong. For this and many other things we will always be grateful. May God grant her peace. A special thank you from the family to her primary caregivers, over the last several years who also became her friends: Caroline, Verna, Anna, Glenna, Penny, Barbara and Rhonda. Please feel free to make a donation, in Mary's name, to your favourite charity, or to the Archdiocese of Kingston Priests' Retirement Fund. Mary will be resting at ROBERT J. REID & SONS FUNERAL HOME, 309 Johnson Street, Kingston. Visitation will be Monday, November 5th from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday, November 6th at 10:30 a.m. Rite of Committal Prayers at St. Mary's Cemetery. 10889344