Cathleen Asch Goss

1950 - 2017

Cathleen Asch Goss

67, of Barrington Hills, IL, passed away on July 31, 2017 following complications from treatment for melanoma. She is survived by husband Jan C. Goss; son and daughter-in-law Alexander "Zander" Goss and Hannah Boston; siblings Jonathan Asch, Amanda Asch Halle, and Andrea Asch; stepdaughters Natalie Goss of Indianapolis and Hannah Wachs of Los Angeles, CA; and mother-in-law, M. Lucille Goss of Martinsville, IN. She was the proud aunt of eleven and step-grandmother of seven.

Cathleen was born June 14, 1950 in New York City to Florence and John Asch and grew up in Greenwich, CT. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. A job at AT&T led to her 1985 move to Indianapolis, where she helped found trailblazing computer graphics firm TrueVision, Inc. Though not an engineer herself, Cathleen became an expert in facilitating communication among technological visionaries, marketing departments, and production teams. She relocated to Barrington, IL, in 1994 to join Ameritech as head of its Electronic Commerce Division, before returning to entrepreneurial ventures from 1996 until retirement.

Cathleen's personal interests were as varied as her professional experience. Her hobbies included travel, archaeology, glass collecting, and making her own beaded jewelry. She loved animals and celebrated Groundhog Day with memorable parties.

In lieu of a funeral, a Celebration of Cathleen's Life will be held at her home in Barrington Hills, Illinois on Saturday, October 14, 2017. Email cathleengossmemorial@gmail.com for details.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a memorial donation to your choice or one of the places of spiritual significance to Cathleen: Camp Arcadia in Maine where she spent her childhood summers, http://camparcadia.com/scholarship-foundation/; the Women's Fund for Georgia, A country which she repeatedly toured in recent years, https://www.womenfundgeorgia.org/en/About?tab=4 or College Year in Athens, http://www.cyathens.org/148/1/give-now/.