The three Paterson sisters, left to right, Flora, Catriona and Elsie, on the pier at Jura in the 1930s.
CATRIONA Mary Paterson, well known and much loved in both her native Greenock and her ancestral home of Jura, died peacefully in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Catriona was the youngest and last surviving daughter of Greenock master mariner George Paterson and Dhiurach Mary Black or Shaw. She was born and lived her life in Greenock, following her mother and sisters into teaching which saw her reach assistant head teacher at Greenock High School.