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Former Rye Resident And Volunteer Extraordinaire, Kerstin Doherty, 81 Former Rye Resident And Volunteer Extraordinaire, Kerstin Doherty, 81
Former Rye Resident And Volunteer Extraordinaire, Kerstin Doherty, 81 Mrs. Kerstin Birgetta Doherty (née Karlsson), 81, of Raleigh, NC died on Sunday, May 5. She was the only daughter of the late Otto Wilhem Karlsson and Anna Karin Segerdahl Karlsson. Kerstin was born July 10, 1937 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1959, Kerstin began her employment at Pan American Airlines with her home base in New York. She began flying to a variety of cities in the Pan Am system (throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia). In 1960, on one of those Pan Am flights (a return “leg” from Paris to New York), she met the love of her life, Robert Doherty. In 1962, Kerstin left Pan Am to…