KATHERINE WINSHIP FLANZ

A ten-year resident of Palisades, Katherine Flanz, 48, died at her home on Washington Spring Road on May 31 after a long illness.

Following her attendance at Vassar College, Katherine received a B.A. from New York University and a Master of Social Work from Fordham University, and consequently served as a Child Care Worker at the Boston Center for Blind Children, a Social Case Worker, a Program Specialist for Children and Family Services at the Westchester County Department of Social Services, and as Director of the Yonkers Center of Planned Parenthood. In 1986, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the School of Social Work at Columbia University where she taught a course in social policy. Her concerns extended to a keen interest in nature and she maintained memberships in the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society.
 She is survived by her husband Lynn R. Sykes, Higgins Professor of Geological Sciences at Columbia University, parents Dr. Gisbert and Beth Winship Flanz of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, brothers William of Hong Kong and Richard of Oneonta, NY, and a sister Elizabeth F. Macaulay of Franklin, MA. At a memorial service on June 5, her family asked that donations be made in her memory to either United Hospice of Rockland County, Planned Parenthood of Westchester and Rockland, or Grace Episcopal Church.

From The Palisades (N.Y.) Newsletter, October 1996