Catherine Beth Gorecki

January 6, 1986 – January 12, 2018. Age 32. Catherine passed away peacefully at home surrounded by friends and family. Preceeded by her father, Ronald Michael Gorecki and aunt, Karen Dionisi. She leaves behind her mother, Shirley Gorecki; brother, David; sister, Elizabeth; grandmother, Leona Carkner; cousins, Louis, Dominic, Haley & Michael Dionisi, Samantha, Rachel & Kyle Gerutta; nieces, Alexis and Victoria; aunts and uncles, Theodore & Deborah Gerutta, Ruth Anne Goerge; beagle, Roxy. Catherine was an active dancer from age 3 through highschool at the Mary Skiba School of Dance. Also at the age of 3 she asked for violin lessons. She attended Graebner Elementary School & played violin with the Metropolitan Youth Symphony; attended Bemis Junior High & participated at Blue Lakes Fine Arts Camp, active at Henry Ford II High School in concert & Symphonic Band; and was drum major of the 2004 Henry Ford II High School Marching Band. She attended Central Michigan University for a degree in music, and graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science, Elementary Professional Education, Magna Cum Laude. Catherine was a spiritual person and devoted the remainder of her life in the service of the Boy Scouts. She lived in Battle Creek & Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her closest friends were, Aaron Collins, Kyle & Annie Dumkow, Amy Willis, Kristy Osebold & Stephanie Higgins. Catherine had a love for nature and being in the outside world. If there was a day above freezing you could find her outside walking the nearest nature trail or wandering around camp. Catherine worked 4 summers from 2006-2009 at Lost Lake Scout Reservation as the Ecology Conservation Director. She ventured on in 2011 to work at Rota-Kiwan Scout Reservation as first the Fine Arts Director, then the COPE director/commissioner her second summer on the Boy Scout side of camp and the program director on the Cub Scout side of camp. In both 2013 and 2014 Catherine served as the Cub Scout Camp Director for Rota-Kiwan Scout Reservation. During that time she brought many great ideas and suggestions to the camp that are still being used and implemented today. Catherine was a participant in Wood badge course C2-783-15 and was selected into the Fox patrol with great honor. She has many friends who were already foxes and she was excited to be next. Catherine's ticket focused on the betterment of Nottawa Trails district at which she accomplished without a doubt. Cat first joined the Michigan Crossroads Council staff as a para-professional in 2011. During her 6 years Cat provided leadership to a variety of areas including: Outreach programs for under served areas, high School Career Exploring program, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) program, as our Nottawa Trails Unit Service Executive and most recently excelling as the Southern Shores Field Service Council Program Director. In this role Cat, worked with volunteers from across the 11 counties in our area to coordinate Training, Activities, Advancement opportunities for our 4,000 adult volunteers and the over 10,000 young men and women in our program. Catherine had a knack for helping other succeed, she was very willing to help other people even when she knew she had her own work to do. She put her friends and family first no matter the situation. If that meant driving at 3am to make sure family was taken care of, she would do it. Visitation Monday 4-8pm with a 10am Funeral Service on Tuesday at Wujek-Calcaterra & Sons Inc., 36900 Schoenherr Rd at Metro Parkway (16 Mile). Interment, Resurrection Cemetery. Please share memories with the family at their "On-Line Guestbook" at WujekCalcaterra.com