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Catherine McCreary Strauch is the daughter of the late Mr. & Mrs. Pierce Newberry McCreary (Elizabeth Marks Smith). She began her life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was raised in New York and retired back to Charlottesville. She has been married for over 50 years to Joel Edward Strauch, they have a daughter Jacqueline Elizabeth (husband, Theodore James) and grandson Connor James.

Catherine is a third-generation graduate from Texas Women’s University, received a Master’s Degree from Manhattanville College, and taught for thirty years at Saint David’s School in New York City.

Like her late grandmother, Katharine Pierce McCreary, she is a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Catherine serves on the Board of Regents of Gunston Hall and is on the Foundation Board.

Society Memberships

  • National Society of Colonial Dames of America
  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Honorary Governor General)
  • Order of the Crown in America (Former First Vice President General)
  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Keeper of the Signet)
  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Fourth Vice President General)
  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Assistant Registrar General)
  • National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Curator General, member of Saint Louis)
  • National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Secretary General)
  • One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal (Virginia Councilor)
  • Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Third Vice President General)
  • Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
  • The National Gavel Society
  • Jamestowne Society, Richmond, VA Company
  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants
  • Society of Daughters of Holland Dames

 Other Notes

  • Junior League of the City of New York (53 years). Co-Chaired the Thanksgiving Eve Ball (Debutante Ball) at the Plaza Hotel for two years.
  • University of Virginia Women’s Club
  • Bartow-Pell Conservancy
  • Fifth generation descendant of Governor James Bennett McCreary, governor of Kentucky, 1875-1879, 1911-1915.
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