Kathleen ‘Kathy’ Mary Moran

August 25, 1945 - April 15, 2022

SAN DIEGO, CA — Longtime Point Loma resident Kathleen ‘Kathy’ Mary Moran died on Good Friday, April 15, 2022. She was the oldest of six children of Richard and Helen Moran.

Kathy was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1945, attended local area schools, including Our Lady of Peace Catholic School, and graduated from Point Loma High School and the University of Portland.

After working at the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C., Kathy returned to San Diego and continued in government service for thirty-one years at the Small Business Administration until her retirement. She took particular pleasure in supplying her office at the SBA with weekly flowers from her mother’s garden in Point Loma.

Following retirement, Kathy loved making quilts for family and friends, and traveling the world, notably for several pilgrimages to Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was an active and dedicated member of St. Charles Catholic Church where she attended daily masses and rosary recitations, continuing to participate by phone during the

pandemic. Kathy was particularly grateful for the sense of community that St. Charles provided her.

Kathy was preceded in death by her parents, Richard and Helen Moran, and her brother, Thomas. She is survived by her four sisters, Janice Goldfarb (Paul) of Mission Hills, Patricia Jay (Charles) of Homer, Alaska, Eileen Lazar (George) of Point Loma, and Sharon Browning of San Francisco. In addition, Kathy leaves eight nieces and nephews, and seven grandnieces and nephews, all of whom she was particularly fond.

A memorial mass for Kathy is scheduled for Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Point Loma with inurnment to follow at a later date at Mission San Luis Rey, Oceanside, California.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Kathy’s name to

St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 2802 Cadiz Street, San Diego, CA 92110, or the Dominican Friars of the Western Dominican Province, 5877 Birch Court, Oakland, CA 94618, or online at opwest.org.

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