Cathleen Ann Thorsen

Cathleen Ann Thorsen, (nee Cornwell), a longtime and tenured elementary teacher in Covington, Kentucky schools, passed away Monday, August 7th after several days hospitalization in Murray.

The 54-year-old educator had traveled to Utah to attend a family reunion and became acutely ill shortly after arrival here. Death was attributed to organ and blood pressure problems.

A Requiem Mass will be celebrated at 11 o’clock Saturday morning, August 12th at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church on Veteran’s Way in Burlington, KY. Interment will be in that city’s cemetery.

Mrs. Thorsen was a daughter of James M. and Bette J. Cornwell. She was born in Omaha, NE on July 24, 1952 and came to Utah with her family at age three. Her parents were co-publishers of the Green Sheet Newspapers. She was educated at St. Ann’s elementary school, St. Mary of the Wasatch high school and studied at Utah State University and the University of Utah, earning a Bachelors degree. For a time she was a substitute teacher in Granite and Jordan districts and later added a Masters in elementary education from Northern Kentucky University. She was selected by her school to receive innovative training in children’s mathematics and was studying to become a special education instructor.

She is survived by her parents of Holladay; by sons Timothy J. and Jared T., both of Burlington, a sister, Christine White of Idaho Falls, ID and a brother, Charles E., a San Francisco embryologist.