Katherine Winslow Euster Priest, a regular summer visitor to Rehoboth Beach since 1933 and a permanent resident of Rehoboth Beach for the past 30 years, died Saturday, September 3, 2022, at the age of 89, when she turned 90. He passed away 3 months after his birthday. She has her daughters Karen and Brynn, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Katherine, known locally and in her family as “Kitsy,” was born on December 30, 1932 in Washington, DC, to Frances Winslow and Laura Brin, daughter of the Norwegian Ambassador to the United States. Kitsy’s paternal Winslow family descended from the Mayflower.
As a child, Kitsy displayed artistic talent, joining the Rehoboth Art League regularly with her mother and remaining an active member throughout her life. Her painting has been her lifelong passion.
After graduating from the Sidwell Class of 1950, she attended Connecticut College in New London. Two years later, she married her fellow Washington native Roger Her Euster in September 1952, and while her husband graduated from nearby Haverford College, she was married to Bryn. I was transferred to In July 1953, her first child, Karen, was born. From 1954 until her circa 1958, she and Roger lived primarily in Washington and were engaged in real estate. In 1955 her second child, Wayne, was born.
Around 1958, the family moved to New York City, where Roger expanded his business venture to include international trading as well as urban real estate. A daughter, Bryn, was born in 1962, followed by Kitsy’s last child, Benjamin Worthington, called Worth.Roger opened the 1967 Village He Theater in what would later become the famous Fillmore in the East. Began buying theaters, including. Roger his euster has pioneered presentations by rock and roll bands such as The Doors, The Who and Richie Havens, as well as events by poet Allen Ginsberg and his LSD advocate Timothy Leary. Kitsy became the owner of The Village Theater name for about six weeks as Roger moved his assets through various companies, during which Kitsy introduced Ginsburg and Leary at anti-Vietnam War events.
Kitsy and Roger’s marriage fell apart around 1972. After that, Kitsy spent about a year in her Village apartment in Greenwich, where she wore “hippie” skirts, joined the Art Student League, and studied with the traditionalist painter Frank Mason. Her drawings and pastels from this period show a true flair for capturing the look and feel of her late 60’s and early 70’s. Kitsy also took up Aikido, a Japanese martial art, and stayed in touch with her teacher for the rest of her life.
Kitsy then discovers she has breast cancer. Dealing with this was one of the things she was most proud of herself because it didn’t let her down.
As Karen and Wayne went to college around 1973, Kitsy found herself in an apartment on Riverside Drive in New York City with Bryn and Worth, with stunning views of the Hudson River on the artistic and intellectual Upper West Side. . art her student rabbi she is the “singing rabbi” of west 79th street while participating in her masonic instruction and taking Japanese aikido lessons in the league her shlomo her karlbach I became a peripheral member of the circle.
Around 1976, she met film and television actor Martin Priest (real name Emmanuel Nurek) at a New York West Side reception for the singing group. He whipped Lucky out of his cigarette pack and won her heart by lighting a match in one of her hands. When they wanted to get intimate, she confronted the mastectomy issue head-on, pointing and saying, “This is real, this is fake.” I beat you,” he replied.
After this, around 1978, Kitsy married Martin for the second time. Kitsy thus acquired two sons-in-law, Kim and Gary Nurek, by Martin and his first wife. Martin had the lead role in the 1989 film The Conspiracy Against Harry.
Your service will be private.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the Purcell Funeral Home and Crematorium at the Atkins Lodge Chapel in Lewis.
Visit Kitsy’s Life Memorial webpage and sign her virtual guestbook at parsellfuneralhomes.com.
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