Kutch, Joan McNamara

Joan McNamara Kutch, 85, of Pinehurst, NC passed away on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at Kingswood Nursing Center. She was born December 5, 1925 in Lynbrook, NY. She had worked at the Gary(Ind.) Post Tribune, the Fordham University radio station, where she was the first woman to win the Silver Microphone Award in 1955, WHLI Radio in New York and the famous New York TGY Fair. She was active in the Democratic Club of New York and the community theater scene. After years of living in Long Island, NY, she retired in Cape Cod, MA, for 10 years before moving to Pinehurst in 2009. She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph Kutch and three children Mary Ann Valenza, Leo Kutch and Caroline Kutch. She is survived by three children Betsey McCann of Pinehurst, Ellyn Kutch of San Francisco, CA and Thomas Kutch of Raleigh, NC. She was the proud grandmother of five and great-grandmother of four. Services will be held at a later time in New York.