Catherine Anne Moxey Guntz was peacefully led by Jesus to our Eternal Home on January 14, 2025 after a tough and courageous battle with colon cancer.
Cathy was born in Portsmouth, Virginia to Thomas and Elizabeth Moxey on August 20, 1961. She lived in Virginia Beach, VA; Groton, CT; Charleston, SC; Staten Island, NY; Durham, NC; and back to Virginia Beach when her father retired from the Navy. She was a classic Diamond Springs, Bayside and Beach Girl. In her youth she loved ballet, riding bikes, swimming, music, time with friends and family on the Eastern Shore of MD and in New York, and family trips.
Her family was always on or around the ball field. From the fields at Little Creek and around Virginia Beach to the Grand Stands of the New York Mets and Washington Nationals, her and her siblings cherished the sport and all that it involved. Specifically, Cathy poured her heart into coaching teenage girls, loving them and making lifetime friendships. When her daughters started playing, she was back in the stands and dugouts, and sweetly recognized as Mother-of-the-Year at Aragona-Pembroke fields. When her grandson Aiden picked up a ball, she returned to the fields once again as a beaming grandmother.
Cathy transformed her love and young experiences of travel into a wonderful and exciting career as a Travel Agent. She managed CI Travel offices around Hampton Roads beginning in 1990, making more friends out of coworkers and clients! In 2015, she accepted a job working remotely for Peak/Direct Travel out of San Jose, CA where she had many interesting clients including the LA Dodgers and other professional sports organizations.
She grew up as an active member of the Little Creek Amphibious Base Chapel. In April 1996 she married “the boy next door”, John “Jack” L. Guntz. Their sacred love blessed the world with Kaitlyn “Katie” Anne Guntz in 1997 and Susan Nicole “Nikki” Guntz in 1999. Their blessings were amplified in 2017 with the birth of their grandson, Aiden Thomas Gossett.
Cathy is predeceased by treasured grandparents, a nephew, Nathan James Block, her father, Thomas Moxey, her in-laws, John and Shirley Guntz, a
brother-in-law, Ronnie Rakowski, numerous aunts, uncles and four, younger first-cousins.
She is survived by her husband of 28 years, Jack, her mother, Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Hart Moxey, her daughter Katie (Taylor), her daughter Nikki (Devin), her grandson Aiden; her brother Jim Moxey (Michele); sister Susan Moxey Hale (Gerald); sisters-in-law Shirley Rakowski, Diane Ross (Glen); nieces Kelli Griggs (Dan), Justine Webb (Ricky), Jacquelyn Moxey Johnson (Chris), Lauryn Moxey, Kierstyn Moxey Trawick (Travis), Morgyn Moxey, and a bonus niece, Katherine “Beth” Hale; nephews Bryan Curtis Rakowski, W. Tyler Block (Hannah), Christian Block (Katie) and bonus nephew G. Thomas Hale (Harley); 8 great nieces and nephews; and 25 first-cousins and their spouses. There are so many dear friends and kind, generous neighbors to thank, but the family especially wants to recognize Tonya Parker (Hanley) Turk, Kim Law and Tamara Moses
Miller for their steadfast care and support in the last few weeks of Cathy’s life with us.
A Celebration of Life is being planned for Early March, 2025 with details to come.