Life of Catherine Mulholland Celebrated
Family and friends remember the historian’s love of the San Fernando Valley.
Catherine Mulholland, a granddaughter of William Mulholland and a vocal protector of his legacy, was memorialized Thursday morning prior to a private family interment at Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth. Mulholland died in Camarillo on July 6, aged 88. In 2000, Mulholland published William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles, in which she painted a softer image of the engineer who rose to become chief of the Department of Water and Power and in the 1910s oversaw the construction of the 230-mile aqueduct that carries water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles. The elder Mulholland was viewed by some as having expropriated water from farmers in order to feed a burgeoning metropolis. He left the DWP in disgrace in 1928 after another of …
Mary K. Carroll
11:59 pm on Monday, June 13, 2011
Around 1984 I was working as a bartender in the American Airline VIP lounge at LAX when her flight was delayed for several hours. Both she and the two people traveling with her were very kind and polite. Seeing how beautiful she was up close was really something beauty but her inner beauty seemed to radiate. Her attire was simply elegant and she was wearing that incredible Richard Burton rock. more ›