Katherine Rappe Lopes (Ports)

Katherine Rappe (nee Ports) Lopes, 85, beloved wife of Raymond P. Lopes, of Pawcatuck, CT., passed away at the Westerly Hospital Tuesday, July 23, 2019. Katherine was a communicant of St. Michael Church and a professed Secular Franciscan of the Little Flower Fraternity. She enjoyed duckpin bowling in her younger days. She was the daughter of the late Clarence and Marie Ports. She is survived by her husband, Raymond; four children, Clare Ellen Murphy of Culver City, Calif., Susan Dietz of Fallston, Md., JoAnn Harman of Glen Rock, Pa., and David Rappe of Plainfield, Ill.; a brother Franklin “Buddy” Ports Sr. of Bel Air, Md.; sister Eleanor Wagoner of Elkton, Md.; 11 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, August 2, 2019 at 10:00am at the Church of the Immaculate Conception 200 Ware Avenue in Towson. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.