Catherine Groothuis

Catherine Groothuis, age 69, of Montevideo, Minnesota passed away on April 1, 2025 at Avera Granite Falls Care Center.

A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, April 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Montevideo. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church.

Interment will follow in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Clara City, Minnesota.

Catherine Ann Groothuis was born July 4, 1955 to Gordon and Lillian (Smith) Groothuis at the Montevideo Hospital. She grew up on the family farm in rural Clara City and was baptized at Buffalo Lake Lutheran Church. Catherine lived at home until 1971 when she went to Rolling Acres in Excelsior for an in-house education program. She attended the Carver County DAC before moving back to Montevideo in 1979. She continued with the Chippewa-Yellow Medicine DAC and REM home and later went to work with Chippewa Enterprises, where she enjoyed the friendships she made.

Catherine enjoyed watching old Westerns, especially ones with John Wayne. She kept herself busy when watching TV by tearing up old newspapers. Each year Catherine celebrated her Fourth of July birthday with a party and she was one to always know what she wanted!

Catherine is survived by her mother, Lillian Groothuis; sister, Deb (Mike) Thiner; nephew, Justin Menting; as well as aunts, uncles and cousins.

She is preceded in death by her father, Gordon Groothuis; brother, Delmar Groothuis; and paternal and maternal grandparents.