Katharine Leah Womer Phillips, 71, of Pittsburgh, passed away while celebrating Holy Week at church, on May 1, 2024. Kathy is preceded in death by her parents, Kenneth and Helen Womer. She is survived by her loving husband of 37 years, Nazmy Phillips, children Maryisis and Mark (Melanie), beloved grand-dog Zaytoon, and her siblings Sarah (Jim) Bradford, Barbara (Wayne) Moore, Zoe (Billy) Norris, Helen (Eddie Leya and Chad) Shaffer, and Joseph (Cindi) Womer, as well as numerous in-laws, nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews, both in America and in Egypt.

Katharine was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from Deer Lakes High School in 1970 and later Point Park College. She grew up in a large, loving family and would enjoy spending hours rehashing with them the crazy stories of their childhood. Kathy (dubbed ‘Kathy Sunshine’ by coworkers) was a medical technologist in a 48-year long career she was passionate about, working at Central Medical Hospital, St. Francis, Allegheny General, and finally Childrens Hospital where she retired on Dec 1, 2023. Ever the avid traveler, she met the love of her life, Nazmy, at King Fahad Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and they were married on November 25, 1987. They proceeded to have Maryisis and Mark who were the lights of her life. She went above and beyond as a mother, taking a very active role in their education and particularly their spiritual lives. When her husband was working abroad, she made sure to bring them both to church every Sunday and instill in them Christian values. She cheered them on with pride as Maryisis obtained a graduate degree, and Mark enlisted in the Air Force to serve his country. She loved cooking and was outstanding at it, traveling, gardening, good music (particularly The Beatles), playing board games with her family, enjoying television, movies, and was a voracious reader. She loved being surrounded by family, cheering on her Steelers, doting on her grand-dog Zaytoon, and being an active member of her church of more than 36 years, St. Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church. She was kind, generous, strong, passionate, ebullient, always ready with the brightest smile, and had a heart of gold. She loved fiercely and she will be greatly missed by all that knew and loved her. As a dear friend said, “Kathy went to celebrate Easter with Jesus because He is the God of resurrection. We wish to be with Jesus like her because she was an angel living on Earth.” “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” John 11:25-26

Friends and family will be received on Friday, May 3, 2024, from 6-8 P.M. in the Alvarez-Hahn Funeral Services and Cremation, LLC., 547 8th Street, Ambridge. Funeral service will be held at St. Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church, 995 Melrose Ave, Ambridge, on Monday, May 6, 2024 at 10:00 A.M. with burial following at Resurrection Cemetery of Moon Township.