* Katherine Flynt Durr; Teacher, Volunteer

Katherine Flynt Durr, a former teacher and volunteer, died Friday at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura. She was 82.

She was born May 30, 1917, in Atlanta, where she grew up and attended Sacred Heart School. Later, she graduated from Fontbonne College in St. Louis and taught at Ursuline Academy, a girls’ school, for two years before returning to Atlanta to teach at her alma mater.

She enlisted in the Naval Reserve, became an officer and started active duty as a WAVE in 1943. She served as an instructor for the Naval Training Service at Hunter College in the Bronx. After that, she became the officer in charge of barracks, 7th Naval District, Miami.

She left the service in 1946 and was certified as an air traffic controller.

While living in Miami, she met fellow naval officer Lt. Gerard Charles Durr. They married in Atlanta after the war and moved to Garden City, N.Y., where he resumed his law practice.

Katherine Durr volunteered for more than 20 years as a troop leader of the Nassau Council of Girl Scouts and was also active in her church and a member of the Mercy League.

Her hobbies included playing golf at the Garden City Country Club and bowling on the St. Anne’s Catholic Youth Organization League. She enjoyed playing bridge, ballroom dancing and gardening.

In 1997, she and her husband moved to Ventura to be near their daughter.

Durr was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years last month.

She is survived by their daughter, Kerry Roscoe of Ventura; a sister, Agnes Loraine Flynt of Atlanta, and two granddaughters.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the Ted Mayr Funeral Home in Ventura.

A funeral Mass is scheduled at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Church in Ventura with Father John Higgins officiating. Burial will follow at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park in Camarillo.