Catherine A. Warren

Loving Mother, Grandmother and Friend

BILLERICA - Catherine A. (Savary) Warren, age 88, beloved wife of the late Lloyd M. Warren died Wednesday at Sunny Acres Nursing Home in Chelmsford.

She was born in Malden, December 28, 1931 a daughter of the late Virgil A. and Mable (Fowler) Savary and had been a Billerica resident since 1974.

Mrs. Warren was an Executive Secretary at Mitre Corp for many years and was a member of the Billerica Garden Club.

She is survived by three sons, Steven Warren and his wife Linda of Billerica, Robert Warren and his wife Janet of Ipswich and Alan Warren and his wife Sheila of Hollis, NH as well as two grandchildren Steven and Yvonne Warren.

It being her request a private graveside service was held at the Fox Hill Cemetery, Billerica. Arrangements under the care of the SWEENEY MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME, Billerica. www.sweeneymemorialfh.com mentally redefined the conventional mythos of the heroic Holocaust survivor, died Oct. 5 at her home in Irvine, California. She was 88.

The cause was complications of bladder cancer, said her sons Daniel and Percy Angress.

Published in English in 2001 when she was about 70, “Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered” spared no one with its blunt and haunting narrative — not her cultured neighbors who stopped suppressing their latent anti-semitism when Germany annexed Austria; her adult relatives who she believed should have foreseen the “final solution” for European Jews and fled the continent with their families; her liberators who swiftly wearied of hearing about the Holocaust; or even her tormented self.

She was 6 when the Nazis marched into Vienna. Her father fled to France, where he was deported and later killed. — (NYT)