Biography: Catherine Couch Remmel of Little Rock, died in her home Tuesday, January 24, 2006. She was born April 22, 1918, at Pine Bluff, Ark., the only daughter of Harvey C. Couch and Jessie Johnson Couch. Her father named Lake Catherine for her when as founding president of Arkansas Light and Power Company (later AP&L), he had Remmel Dam, named for his friend Col. Harmon L. Remmel, built on the Ouachita River to create hydroelectric power for a large part of central and southern Arkansas. She was predeceased by her parents, her beloved husband Pratt Cates Remmel and her four brothers, Johnson Olin Couch, Harvey Crowley (Don) Couch, Jr., Kirke Couch and William Thomas (Bill) Couch. She attended National Park Seminary near Washington, D.C., graduated from Pine Bluff High School and attended Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Va., where she joined Pi Beta Phi sorority. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She married Pratt C. Remmel in Lakeside Methodist Church, Pine Bluff, on June 15, 1940. Catherine Remmel was a member of the Junior League of Little Rock and was an actively supporting member of both the Arkansas Arts Center and the Little Rock Chapter of Garden Clubs of America. For many years she worked as a volunteer at the Working Woman’s Home in Little Rock. She is survived by her daughters, Catherine Ellen Remmel Matthews and Rebecca Couch Remmel, and her son, Pratt Cates Remmel, Jr.; three grand-daughters, Catherine Meredith Matthews, Leslie Matthews Thiele and husband Michael, and Hannah Zinnia Remmel; two great-grandchildren, Lukas Pratt Thiele and Lyla Catherine Thiele; four sisters-in-law, Mary Mitchell Couch and husband Harry Shipley, Gertrude Remmel Butler, Jean Purrington Remmel Little and husband William H. FitzSimmons, and Beverly Best Remmel; her brother-in-law Roland Rowe Remmel and wife Ruth Rebsamen Remmel; and her cousin Elizabeth Couch Barthet. The family thanks her faithful caregivers Stephanie Ricks, Tracy Carlock, Felicia Williams, Evelyn Nwachukwu and Dr. K. Morgan Sauer. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, January 27, at First United Methodist Church, 723 Center, Little Rock, with the Rev. Michael L. Mattox officiating. In lieu of flowers the family has designated the Dunbar Garden Project (AUGER), c/o Williams Library, 1800 South Chester, Little Rock 72206, the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at CALS, 100 Rock, Little Rock 72201 and the Arkansas Arts Center, P.O. Box 2137, Little Rock 72203 as suggestions for memorials. Arrangements are under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home, www.ruebelfuneralhome.com.