St. John, Virgin Islands - Kathleen Damon, 75, wife of the late Roger C. Damon, formerly of Northampton, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009, at her home in St. John.

Born in Northampton, Mass., on Feb. 4, 1934, Kathleen was the daughter of Dolphus G. Fournier and Catherine (Lonergan) Fournier. She went to St. Michael's and graduated from Northampton High School in 1952. Kathy was a devoted wife and worked side by side with her husband, Roger, to build their home in Northampton, a self-sustaining/green camp in New Hampshire, their self-sustaining retirement home in St. John and also a rental villa in St. John.

She was always by Roger's side in any endeavor he took on - taking five children on vacation cross-country in a VW bus and pop-up camper to California and back, starting and expanding his businesses Whitewater, DW Corporation and Wilderness Mold, family canoe trips down the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Maine, and moving away from everything to St. John.

In the midst of raising her five children, Kathy went back to school and earned her degree in nursing from Smith Vocational. She worked at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and Hampshire County Nursing home as an LPN. After retiring from nursing, Kathy provided daycare for her grandchildren as well as other children. She enjoyed volunteering in the first grade at the Guy Benjamin School in St. John and sharing her homes with vacationing family and friends.

Kathy was predeceased by her husband, Roger.

She leaves her brother and his wife, Jack and Jackie Fournier of Easthampton, Mass.; her five children, Larry Damon and his wife, Rose, of Northampton, Debby Raymond and her husband, Paul, formerly of Southampton, Mass., and currently residing in St. John, Diane Haskell and her husband, David, of Southampton, Kate Raymond and her husband, Mark, of Easthampton, and Michael Damon and his wife, Diana, of Hadley, Mass.; as well as 13 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, her husband's brothers and sisters, several nieces and nephews and a few longtime friends.

Kathy is together again with Roger. She wished not to shadow the holidays for her family and friends. Services and a celebration of life will be scheduled and announced at a later date.