KATHARINE TWEEDY WARING

KATHARINE TWEEDY WARING SAN ANGELO - Katharine Tweedy Waring died Sunday afternoon, May 23, 2004, at her home in San Angelo. She was born March 14, 1917, at St. John's Hospital in San Angelo, the eldest daughter of Joseph Lord "Jose" Tweedy and Eva Gregg Browne Tweedy. She was also the first grandchild of Katharine Gregg Browne, for whom she was named. Granddaughter of Joseph Tweedy, one of West Texas' most noted pioneers, Katharine spent her early years at Knickerbocker Ranch, which was founded in 1877 in southwestern Tom Green County. The Tweedy home and Knickerbocker Ranch originally consisted of 200 sections of land owned and leased by Joseph Tweedy and his New York Associates. This venture brought the first sheep to the Concho Valley. Her father, Joseph Lord "Jose" Tweedy, served as mayor of San Angelo in 1936 and managed the ranch for the Tweedy family until his death. The ranch continues to be owned and operated by the descendants of his brother, Andrew Mellick Tweedy Sr. First home-schooled by her great aunt, Katharine began school in the 4th grade at Santa Rita in San Angelo in 1927; later attending the Hartridge School in Plainfield, N.J., living with her grandmother Browne, graduating in 1934. In 1938 she graduated with honors from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. After graduation, she lived and worked in New York City modeling for Lord and Taylor and working for Doubleday Books, where she began a career in research and writing, then returned home and working for the San Angelo Standard-Times when her father died in 1940. Katharine married Lt. Charles Wildey Waring in Emmanuel Episcopal Church in a military wedding on July 2, 1942. Their first home was the army post at Fort Riley, Kan., where Charlie was stationed until he went overseas with 2nd Cavalry to Italy. After his military discharge in November 1945, they lived and ranched at Lipan Springs Ranch, south of San Angelo. The Waring family raised Thoroughbred polo ponies and Hereford cattle. Charlie managed the ranch with his father, Col. R.S. "Dick" Waring. Katharine, as her parents and grandparents had been, was a lifelong member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church - a member of the vestry, St Catherine's Guild, Tuesday Ladies, and Altar Guild and a lay reader. She will be remembered for her work on the Archives committee, from which she conducted numerous sessions on the history of the church. With other church members she wrote a History of Churches in the Northwest Texas Diocese of the Episcopal Church, requiring interviews of senior members at every church in the diocese. Katharine taught in the San Angelo schools for 18 years. Many former students will remember her as their junior high school English teacher, first at Washington Junior High School then among the inaugural teaching team at John Glenn Junior High School, where she taught until her retirement in 1977. A noted historian, she was often the chosen source for information about San Angelo's past. As a member of numerous historical organizations, including the Tom Green County Preservation League and the Tom Green County Historical Society, she did considerable research on area cemeteries, indexed old issues of the Standard-Times and sponsored historical markers in the Knickerbocker community and in Fairmount Cemetery, where she will be buried. She was an active member of the Twentieth Century Club, a group established in 1901 for women of early families. As a board member of the Fairmount Cemetery and involved in its 100 year celebration, she organized a cemetery walk remembered and enjoyed by many. Her belief was that every person and each family contributes to the historical record. Her personal connection with at least three generations of Tom Green county families and her effort and ability to record and remember gives her an unmatched scope of history of this county. So, by virtue of her own personal knowledge and by her unflagging scholarship and interest in recording those times for all of us to remember, she helped to produce the History of Tom Green County, published only recently. Her husband, Charles Wildey Waring Sr; an infant grandson, William Waring Horton; her brother, Joseph Lord Tweedy Jr.; a sister-in-law, Mildred "Sitty" Waring Love; brother-in-law, O. T. Waring; and cousins, Andy and Jack Tweedy and Betty Tweedy Mendell preceded Katharine in death. She is survived by a loving and devoted family, four children, Charles Wildey Waring and his wife, Diana, of Dallas, Richard Solomon Waring of Houston, Joseph Tweedy Waring and his wife, Melinda, of Houston, Eva Waring Horton and her husband, Lee, of San Angelo; her sister, Anne Tweedy Ardery and husband, Philip, of Louisville, Ky.; and sister-in- law, Dorothea Waring of Madison, Conn. Her grandchildren and families are Deborah Waring Evans and husband, Curt, of Chicago, Ill., Katharine Waring O'Donnell and husband, Kevin, of Alexandria, Va., and their mother, Vickie Hauser, Brian Thomas Waring, Brandon James Waring, and their mother, Janice Waring, Richard Hayes Waring and his wife, Mary, Charles Wundrel Waring and their mother, Adele Waring, all of Denver, Colo., Joseph Tweedy Waring Jr. and his wife, Amy, of Gulfport, Miss., Zachary Garrison Waring, James Cade Horton, Alexander Wildey Horton, all of Austin, Lucas Browne Horton of New York and Molly Lin-Hua Mathes Waring of Dallas. There are six great-grandchildren. Nephews and nieces include Julie Ardery and husband, Bill Bishop, Hal and Kathryn Armstrong, and Leslie and Steve Wilkinson, all of Austin, Theodore Waring Armstrong of Houston, Billie and Debbie Newlin of San Antonio, Philip and Cecelia Ardery Jr., Joseph and Anne Ardery, of Louisville, Ky., John and Leslie Waring Flynn of Roslyn, Long Island, Warren and Tina Waring Ackerman of Wilton, Conn., Lynne Waring Patterson of Hendersonville, N.C., Scott and Carol Jones, of North Garden, Va., and Mildred "Chica" Love of San Diego, Calif. The extended family reaches far and wide. They include Dr. Edwin M. Sykes and Betty Tweedy Sykes, Morris and Anne Sykes Reese, Drew Sykes, Louise Tweedy, Barbara Tweedy and Sandra Tweedy of San Angelo; Logan and Patricia Tweedy Wagner and Edwin M. Sykes III of Austin; Barbara and Dr. Mellick Tweedy Sykes, Drs. Bill and Barbara Mendell Sullivan of San Antonio; Randy and Sara Mendell Smith of Burnet, Malcolm "Bish" Tweedy and Joe and Lanna Tweedy Duncan of Fort Davis; David and Sarah Tweedy Manning, Jerry Nelson and Katharine Tweedy Nelson, John and Beret Tweedy and Christopher and Susan Tweedy of Denver, Colo.; Bronson and Mary Louise Tweedy of Chevy Chase, Md.; Lawrence L. and Helen Tweedy Jr., of Medford, Ore.; Gerald and Lydia Lauderdale, of Concord, Mass; Vance and Edie Lauderdale, of Englewood, N.J.; and Barbara Flowers of Marina del Rey, Calif. She seems a part of every community in San Angelo as evidenced by the flow of cards and calls from so many friends and admirers both known and unknown. The family wishes to thank one and all. Juanita, Rosa, Nellie and Odelia have been especially helpful in these last months. Service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 27, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in San Angelo. Interment will follow in Fairmount Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her grandsons. The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Tom Green County Historical Society, Tom Green County Preservation League, Knickerbocker Community Center, or Hospice of San Angelo, or that you honor Katharine's generous nature with a donation to your favorite charity.

May 26, 2004
anonymously
To the family of Mrs.Waring may God be with you during this time of pain. My family originated in Knickerbocker and while I was not brought up there, there are many stories in my family that come from the Tweedy ranch and I am g