Paula Kissinger, 97; Diplomat’s Mother

Paula Kissinger, 97, mother of former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. She held the Bible at the 1973 White House ceremony in which her firstborn son assumed the country’s highest Cabinet post. The German-born Paula Stern Kissinger was the family member who decided she, her husband and their two young sons should flee the Nazis after Adolf Hitler came to power. They emigrated to New York in 1940, and she remained in the same apartment in Manhattan’s German-Jewish community until her death. As a new immigrant, Paula Kissinger quickly learned English and worked as a cook and caterer. With customary humor, she always took her elder son’s fame in stride, but admitted she was proud of him. “They say ‘My son the doctor,’ ” she commented. “What should I say, my son the Aussenminister?” On Friday in New York City.

Catherine W. Pillsbury, 92; Philanthropist

Catherine W. Pillsbury, 92, philanthropist who aided Santa Barbara organizations. Born in New York City, she married Evans S. Pillsbury 2d, a cattle rancher in the Santa Ynez Valley. Catherine Pillsbury served for nearly two decades as a director of the Boston Globe Co. operated by her husband’s family for 125 years. She served 15 years on the board of Santa Barbara’s Cottage Hospital, which was the major recipient of her philanthropy. On Friday in Montecito, Calif.