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Kat Suthon, Aunt Kitty, Ol’ Puss o’ the North, Kat Whiskers.  On October 21, 2025, our Kat left her mortal body in the care of her loving and beloved chosen and blood families and joined the stars.  

Born Katherine Hullin Suthon on November 11, 1938, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the ninth of ten children to Bessie Imogen Keen Suthon and Archibald Magill Suthon, Kat lived her nearly 87-year life as a heretical witch, a butch dyke, a spirited storyteller, and a ‘good trouble’ rabble rouser. She was an early member of the Reclaiming Collective, an earth-honoring and activist spiritual community in the Pagan and Goddess traditions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its founding in 1979 Reclaiming has evolved into a tradition of the Craft that now includes communities across the US and on four continents. She uniquely embodied the passionate, the poetic, and the revolutionary amongst her ancestors, thus carrying a blessing and responsibility in her own generation that brought her great joy and freedom as well as great challenges. We will not see her like again. 

Kat was as extraordinarily loving as she was complex and cantankerous. To have known her as friend or family was a rare and cherished gift.  

Kat leaves us with the legacy and inspiration of her chosen spiritual practices and community, the sacred spaces she helped to create, her lifelong activism on behalf of social justice, feminist and LGBTQ+ rights, climate justice, and spiritual freedom.  She will be remembered for her beautiful poetry and the stories she told in her signature New Orleans drawl, her raucous laughter, her unbounded love of cats, and above all, her tenacious insistence on living life and dying on her own terms. 

Her family and close friends laid her to rest in the Marin County land that she so loved (with four cherished felines’ remains) on October 31, 2025, enrobed in a thousand flowers. They watered the earth above her with their tears, songs, laughter, and love. How she would have cackled knowing she was buried on Halloween/Samhain in such a joyfully loving and beautiful ceremony!!  

Remember her whenever you see a cat, read a poem, hike the hills, or dedicate yourself to living with vivacity, authenticity and fierce integrity.  

She leaves her last living sibling Carol Suthon Crochet and many loving family and friends. 

There will be a celebration of her life in Fairfax, California Sunday, March 15, 2026 (the Ides) from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Call Amy at 415 722-4214 for location and directions.