Rose Catherine Prevost

1944 - 2018

October 12, 1944 - May 17, 2018

Kitty Prevost's family and friends lost an adored, adventuresome, kind, unusual, intelligent, eccentric, generous sister, aunt and pal when she died suddenly of a heart attack on Thursday, May 17th, 2018 at her home in Flagstaff, Arizona with her best friend and sister Marie at her side. She was 73.

Kitty, Marie and their brother Joe grew up in San Antonio, the children of Margit Larsen Prevost of Oslo, Norway and Henry Clay Prevost of New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Prevost died before the siblings were fully reared, leaving Mrs. Prevost to manage her spirited brood.

Fortunately he left them a decent estate, and they never wanted for anything. For some years the family enjoyed long periods of time at their vacation home in Acapulco, and Kitty in particular loved to travel.

Kitty was two years old when the family moved to San Antonio in 1946. She attended Cambridge Elementary School, then boarding school in Massachusetts at the college preparatory academy for girls, Mary A. Burnham, from which she graduated. She subsequently studied at the Art Institute in Florence, Italy, and the University of Oslo in Norway. She spoke Spanish, Italian and Norwegian and was eloquent in English.

She was an avid skier and lived for much of the 1970s in Crested Butte, Colorado where she wrote for the local newspaper.

In the 1980s she returned to San Antonio and for some time wrote a social column for the S.A. Express- News.

She adored the movies and collected a massive library of them. For the past 20 years she and her sister Marie shared homes in Scottsdale and Flagstaff, Arizona, living near Marie's daughter Kathy Catalo, her husband Roy and their children. She was an amazing aunt, and always their advocate, resource and treasure.

Kitty had some adventures traveling the world. For example, she took a rafting expedition down the Omo River in Southern Ethiopia. She skied the North Face of Crested Butte. She survived a hurricane in her sailboat "The Sea Rogue" on a voyage from Los Angeles to Cape Horn, following which she hung up her sailor's hat and moved to the mountains. This brief list does not cover all of Kitty's adventures, some of which went to her grave in that category called "The Kindness of Secrets."

She was crazily generous. She was a witty, adored aunt, a beloved sister and best friend to Marie and Joe, and a memorable friend to a grieving coterie here in San Antonio as well as the other places she lived and worked.

She is survived by sister Marie, brother Joe and his wife Mary, their children Tara and Paco, Paco's wife Alyson, niece Kathy and her husband Roy in Scottsdale, nieces Lisa Prevost and Christina Scott and husband Neil, and 9 great-nieces and nephews.

The family asks that memorial donations go to organizations that help animals, because Kitty was a fierce protector of all creatures.

A memorial gathering of Arizona and Texas family and friends will take place at noon on Saturday, September 8th, 2018 at the home of Edith and Taddy McAllister.

Lunch and libations will be served, stories will be told and reminiscing about our precious lost Kitty will take place.