In Memoriam, 1996: Catherine Allen Taylor McConnell

Abstract

The home-going service for Catherine Allen Taylor McConnell was held Tuesday, May 21, 1996, at the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. Mrs. McConnell, led a rich life filled with commitment and service to numerous organizations, including Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History and the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. It had been said that "[She] was studious and scholarly. Catherine not only researched and presented papers at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History and the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, but has collaborated with her husband and sister on several publications." Mrs. McConnell and her husband, Roland, former ASALH Executive Council member, served as guest editors for the special issue African Americans in the Military (volume 12) of the Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. Catherine McConnell is survived by her husband, Roland; her children, Catherine Marie and Charles Preston Howard, III; her mother, Amanda Felicia Allen Taylor; three sisters, Joan Taylor Clement of Washington, DC, Dorothy Taylor of Asheville, NC, and Elsie Taylor Goins of Columbia, SC; one brother, John B. Taylor, III of Silver Spring, MD, as well as numerous other family members and friends. Mrs. McConnell will be greatly missed by those who knew her personally and those who experienced her presence during her many years as an educator and administrator in the Maryland Public School System.