Heath, Katharine Fontaine Syer
Katharine Berkeley Fontaine Syer Heath, 94, formerly of Virginia Beach, died at her home in Riner, Va., on Jan. 11, 2009. Mrs. Heath was the widow of Lee Crawford Syer and James Elliott Heath, both of Virginia Beach.
Mrs. Heath is survived by a son, Lee C. Syer and his wife Jean of Pinon Hills, Calif.; her daughters, Fontaine Syer and her husband Henry Woronicz of Bloomington, Ind., and Charlotte K. Hisey and her husband David of Charlottesville, Va.
A graveside ceremony will be held at the Wallace-Altizer Cemetery on Goldenrod Road in Riner at noon Saturday. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in Katharine Heath’s memory be made to the Nature Conservancy.
October 26, 2015 @ 8:25 pm
To the family, I do not recall meeting Ms. Syer Heath, but I have vivid memories of the late K. Fontaine Syer, who died in May, 2015, from my early days as a freshman at Mt. Holyoke College in 1967. The younger Fontaine was without parallel on the campus that was full of remarkable women, including my classmate, the late wonderful Wendy Wasserstein. Wendy wrote. Fontaine acted, directed, produced and also inspired.
In Bloomington, I tried a few times to contact Fontaine. I saw her productions of Shakespeare at the Indiana University venues and all those old memories of her many talents came flooding back to mind.
My belated wishes to her family here and in Charlottesville. Sarah Jane Hughes