The many who loved Kaitlyn Doorhy will be gathering to celebrate her beautiful life and keep her legacy of giving back alive.
Kait’s Angels and the Doorhy family will be heading to Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut on Saturday, October 24 for “Kait’s Day at Sacred Heart,” a homecoming tailgate party at the homecoming football game versus Central Connecticut State.
The event costs $10 per person and includes a ferry ticket, game ticket, and shuttle from Bridgeport to the game.
Guests are asked to bring a dish to share as well as their own beverage.
The group will be taking the 9 a.m. ferry out of Port Jefferson; those attending are asked to be there by 8:15 a.m. for a head count. Guests are asked to wear their pink Kaitlyn Doorhy T-shirts. New Kait’s Angels sweatshirts will be on sale at the game.
In addition, the Mattituck-Cutchogue Athletic Booster Club invites the entire community to the dedication of a “beautiful trophy case in memory of Kaitlyn D. Doorhy.”
The event takes place Saturday, October 17, at 11 a.m. in the gym lobby of Mattituck High School, followed by the Mattituck Homecoming Soccer game, starting at noon. “Bring your Mattituck spirit and cheer on the Tuckers,” an announcement for the dedication read.
For any additional information or to RSVP, email info@kaitsangels.org.
Since she died in August, 2014, Kait’s memory lives on in the many North Forkers who have come together to do good works and keep her legacy of giving alive.
Kait’s Angels, the not-for-profit organization formed to continue with her lifelong focus on philanthropy, has hosted fundraiser events, including most recently, a yard sale to benefit Benjamin Pileski, a Mattituck resident critically injured after he was struck by a taxi in Montauk over July 4 weekend, as well as the First Annual Kait’s Angels Poker Run.
On August 22, which marked one year since Kait lost her life in the tragic accident while away at college, Darla Doorhy, Kaitlyn’s mother, organized a special memorial mass at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church on Main Road in Mattituck.
At the mass, a speaker gave a moving presentation about the life-saving impacts of organ donation; she is the recipient of a liver.
After Kait died, her family donated her organs so that she could continue her lifelong dedication to giving back.
The community has mourned the former Mattituck Lions Club Strawberry Queen, coming together to form Kait’s Angels and do good works and random Angel Acts of kindness in her memory and to keep her beautiful spirit alive.
A Buddy Bench was dedicated in her honor at Cutchogue East and others will be added at North Fork elementary schools in her name. Also, on her 21st birthday in heaven, a Kait’s Angels designer Wingo event raised funds.
