Catherine Patricia Lavelle Guttroff

Catherine Patricia Lavelle Guttroff – February 1940 – June 2022 Catherine Patricia Lavelle was born in February 1940. She was the second of four girls raised by her parents Martin and Nora Lavelle.

They lived in a lovely Brooklyn brownstone in a neighborhood full of family, friends and faith.

In 1955 Catherine met Frederick “Ricky” Guttroff at Von Dolans IceCream Parlor and their 50 plus year marriage began. Catherine worked at AT&T and as the administrator to the President of Brooklyn College after graduating high school. Cathy and Rick were married at Saint Rosa of Lima church in Brooklyn in 1962 and moved to Georgia where Rick was stationed in the army after graduating from Saint Peters College.

They moved back to Brooklyn and started to grow their family. Their daughter Patty was born in 1964 and their daughter Lisa was born in 1966. They moved to Packanack Lake in Wayne NJ and raised their girls in a place they felt was a little slice of Heaven on Earth.  Catherine worked as the children grew for Executive Enterprises and later for William Paterson College.

In retirement Cathy and Rick joined the snow birds Marco Island Florida for several months of the year where they were fortunate to make some wonderful new friends and meet up with other Packanack snow birds.

You would often see Catherine walking around Packanack Lake once or twice a day or at Zumba class as she loved exercise and spending time with good friends. She was a devout Catholic and member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.

Catherine is survived by her three sisters Margaret McCrea, Ann Boccellari and her husband Eddie and Frances McLeer and her husband Gordon. Her daughter Patty resides in Pennsylvania with her husband Ted and Catherines’s four granddaughters. Catherine’s daughter Lisa resides with her husband Richard and their boys in Armonk New York.