Catharine Dallas Baxter

Catharine Dallas "Kitty" (Fagan) Baxter died peacefully at her home in Austin on May 3rd with her family present. Two months shy of her 97th birthday, Mrs. Baxter died of natural causes. Kitty was born to Catharine Dallas Dixon Fagan and John Louis Fagan on July 30, 1913 in Whitehall, New York, on the Vermont border where her civil engineer father was working for the summer. She returned to her beloved Philadelphia when she and her twin brother Louis Estell Fagan were a few weeks old. Kitty moved to Austin with her family, The Rev. Sam Baxter and their two daughters, Dallas and Lucy, in 1954 when Sam Baxter became rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd. She served many organizations as a volunteer for decades but was particularly active at Good Shepherd where she was part of many guilds and church activities, especially the altar guild. She had served on an altar guild throughout her life, from the age of fifteen until her death. Kitty was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her twin brother and four brothers and sisters. She is survived by her daughters, Lucy Baxter of Austin and Dallas Baxter and her husband Jerry Mitchell of Alpine. She is also survived by her sister, Florence Boyd of Easton, Connecticut and a brother, George Dallas Fagan of Manasquan, New Jersey and numerous nieces, nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews. The family wishes to thank Odyssey Hospice and Tila Burley for her caring help over the past year and a half. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 7th at the Church of The Good Shepherd, Austin. Burial will take place in Oakwood Cemetery following a reception at the church. Pallbearers will be members of the Good Shepherd Altar Guild. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be sent to the Catharine Baxter Scholarship Fund at the Good Shepherd School in Austin or the memorial fund at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Austin.