Katrina H Hall

Katrina Hitchcock Hall, 80, of Westmoreland, NH, died on March 12th, 2025 after a brief illness.

Katrina was born in Hyannis, MA to John (Jack) Hall and Dodie Captiva. She was born premature and thought unlikely to survive, she often spoke of how that early battle shaped her determination, and made her terribly afraid of hospitals.

Katrina lived many places throughout her childhood, including Pascagoula, MS, New York City, and, most beloved of all, Wellfleet, MA. She attended both the North Country School and The Dalton School for junior high and high school.

Katrina spent much of her early adulthood living in New York City, with travels abroad to France and the UK, where she fell in love with French cuisine. She later moved to Boston, MA where she worked in the restaurant Le Bocage as a pastry chef. Perhaps her most thrilling moment of those years was serving one of her omelettes to Julia Child. While in Boston, she met and married John Jordan and, after the birth of her daughter, moved to the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire, where she would spend the majority of the rest of her years.

Katrina was a woman with incredible creative gifts and an uncanny ability to both create and find beauty in the things and rhythms of daily life. Anyone who knew her spoke reverently of her cooking and baking; she loved the way food gathered people together, and nothing made her happier than preparing a meal for someone, or sending them out the door with a homemade muffin or cookie. She was a gifted poet, and the themes of her writing celebrated simple things and the heartache that comes with being human. Her words, like her cooking, were quiet and beautiful. She was at her happiest spending time being a mother and grandmother, gardening, walking down a country road or on the bay beach searching for the roundest, smoothest rocks. She was preceded in death by her father Jack Hall, her mother Dodie Captiva, her stepmother Martha Hall, and her beloved sisters Leonora Hall and Johanna Captiva.

She is survived by her children, Margaree and Casey Jordan, and by her grandchildren, Maddie and Max Jordan, Isadora Jordan, and Noah Jordan-Amberg as well as her brother Darius Hall.

A private family gathering will be held in Wellfleet in April. A service and reception for friends and family will be held June 8th at 12pm at the Hancock, NH congregational church and vestry. The family encourages you to reach out for details by emailing margareejordan@gmail.com.

In lieu of flowers, please consider remembering Katrina by cooking one of her recipes, greeting a golden retriever with exuberance, or walking around your yard barefoot marveling as the summer flowers emerge.

She will be deeply missed.