Katherine Marie (Webster) Dwight (“Kathie”), passed away on May 19, 2023 at Riverwoods Exeter Retirement Community in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Kathie, born in Marion, Indiana, on April 15, 1936, was the eldest daughter of Jeanette and Lawrence Webster. She, however, grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where her family moved when she was a small child. Kathie attended Pine Manor College and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in English. Following college, she moved to New York City where she met her husband to be Theodore W. Dwight Jr. They were married on April 27th, 1963 and moved to Tenafly, New Jersey, where, as a devout wife and mother, they raised their three children and lived for more than 35 years.
Kathie was active in the altar guild at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Englewood, New Jersey, and enjoyed recreating at the Englewood Field Club. Ever learning, she acquired a masters of Individual Studies in Art History from Sarah Lawrence College in 1987. She enjoyed annual visits to vacation homes on the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, and in Kennebunk, Maine.
Kathie is survived by her three children, Lawrence, his wife Julie and their two sons, Alexander and Ryan of Bethesda, MD, Charles, his wife Beata, their daughter Elisabeth and son Benjamin of Toronto, Ontario and Katherine (Katie) and her wife Meghan of Vacaville, CA and by her sister Rosalind Webster Perry of Santa Barbara, CA.
A graveside service for family and friends will be held at Hope Cemetery in Kennebunk, Maine, on Sept. 16, 2023 at 11 a.m.
To share a memory or leave a message of condolence please visit Katherine’s Book of Memories Page at www.bibberfuneral.com.
Arrangements are in the care of Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer St., Kennebunk, ME 04043.
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