Catherine Ramsey Kane

Catherine Ramsey Kane, an administrator with the Harford County Government, died on February 12, 2013 at her Bel Air residence after a long battle with colon cancer. She was sixty-five.

The former Catherine E. Ramsey, daughter of Dr. Wilbur and Mrs. Virginia Ramsey, was born in Baltimore and raised in Towson. A leader from an early age, she was a regional winner in the Johns Hopkins Science Fair. An active Girl Scout, she long cherished the memory of being the youngest member of her troop to attend the 1962 Senior Girl Scout Roundup at Button State Park, Vermont.

After graduating from Towson High School in 1965, she attended Duke University for one year before transferring to Connecticut College, where she completed a degree in economics. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She later earned a Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After returning to Baltimore, she worked for the administration of Mayor William Donald Schaefer. For fifteen years, she worked for the Baltimore County Department of Social Services before taking a job with the Harford County Department of Public Works where she worked for fifteen years.

In 1986, she married John B. Kane, Esquire in the dining room of the Bel Air home they would share until her death. She met her future husband on the first day of class in the 5th grade at Hampton Elementary School in Towson.

Catherine loved travelling, skiing, and spending time with family. She was a longtime treasurer of the Harford Ski Club. She skied many of the major resorts in the United States, as well as two locations in the Dolomites in Northern Italy. She loved visiting the American West and Italy, where she and her family shared wonderful memories of food and friendship. She also treasured her yearly weekend retreats with close friends from childhood.

She is survived by her husband and two sons; Dr. Adam R. Seipp of College Station, TX and David O. Ramsey of Astoria, Oregon, along with their wives Leslie Seipp and Dr. Stephanie Ramsey and grandchildren Rowan K. Seipp, Cora Catherine Seipp and Oliver K. Ramsey. In addition, she is survived by her father, Dr. Wilbur O. Ramsey and siblings, Martha David, Dr. Bennett Ramsey and Thomas Ramsey. Her mother, Virginia Ramsey, predeceased her in 2012.

In lieu of flowers, it is the wish of the family that donations be made to Greenebaum Cancer Center, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 or Gilchrist Hospice Care, Inc., 11311 McCormick Road, Suite 350, Hunt Valley, Maryland 21031.