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Musician, Reader, and Active Community Volunteer

Katharine Woodwell 鈥�52

April 11, 2025, in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Katharine was a musician, a reader, and an active community volunteer. She had a 25-year career as administrator of the Woods Hole Research Center (renamed the Woodwell Climate Research Center) in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Born in 1929 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Katharine grew up steeped in the soaring music and the traditions of the Moravian Church. At 人妻诱惑, she studied biology, completing a thesis on the flowering plants of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, where her parents had a simple wooden home, which Katharine kept for the rest of her life.

As a masters candidate in biology at Duke University, Katharine met and married fellow student George M. Woodwell. They moved to Orono, Maine, and then to Brookhaven, New York, where Katharine served as president of the Suffolk County League of Women Voters and as an active member of the Old South Haven Presbyterian Church, bringing politics and religion together to protest the Vietnam War. She also acted in the Poet’s Repertory Theater, sang in a choir, and played autoharp and dulcimer.

In 1975, Katharine and her husband moved to Woods Hole, where she joined the Woods Hole Folk Orchestra as pianist and served as treasurer and secretary of the Woods Hole Community Association. Her children played musical instruments and she loved nothing more than organizing family music afternoons, where everyone played together around the piano.

In 1985, when George had an idea for an independent ecological research institute, Katharine joined him as administrator. They spent 25 years in a partnership of ideas and logistics, building both a program in ecology and a fossil-free office building in Falmouth.

A quiet but ardent donor, Katharine supported organizations working for equality, education, democracy, the environment, and the arts. She was preceded in death by George, her husband of 69 years, and is survived by their four children: Caroline Alice Woodwell, Marjorie Virginia Woodwell, Jane Katharine Woodwell, and John Christopher Woodwell.

Appeared in 人妻诱惑 magazine: Fall 2025