Mills, Ursula Catherine, age 93, died at the Armenian Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Jamaica Plain, on August 20. The daughter of Francis Mills and Mary Rowley, Aunty Catherine was born on July 3, 1919 in Jamaica Plain and lived there almost all of her life. She was the sister of the late Francis Mills of Danvers, the late Daniel Mills of Gaithersburg, MD, the late Mary Stoia of Hyde Park, and the late Theresa Linden of Groveland, FL. She was the loving aunt of Francis Mills of Springfield, VA, David Mills and Carol Kardenetz of Danvers, Christopher Mills of Thomason, ME, Thomas Mills of Walnut Creek, CA, Elisabeth Ann Concannon of Center Harbor, NH, Ronald Stoia of East Boston, Stephen Stoia of Northfield, Mark Stoia of Boston and Brian Stoia of Hatfield, and the grand aunt and great grand aunt of countless grand nieces and nephews. She was the dear cousin of Anna Maria Murray of Dedham, Sister Mary Celine of Convent Station, NJ, Helen Murphy of Wellesley, Mary Rowley of East Falmouth, David Rowley of Mashpee, Marjorie Short and Janet Short of Quincy, Robert Short of Middleboro, Barbara McDonough of Neponset, Jo Orsak of Syracuse, NY, Larry Mills of Hanson, Richard Horgan of Dorchester, and Carolyn Harty of Norwell. Ursula, also called Urs, Catherine, Cat, Kate, Kitty, Queenie and Sis, was a graduate of Jamaica Plain High, and worked at several jobs but spent most of her working life for the New Haven Railroad Dining Car Department. She was a talented secretary who recorded meetings and even disciplinary hearings verbatim in shorthand. She retired from the railroad in 1984. She was a member of the choir at St. Thomas Church in Jamaica Plain. She was a self-taught piano player. The family story is that while quarantined at home with scarlet fever at the age of seven, she went to the family piano, began playing and never stopped. She regularly played at Diamond Jim’s Lounge at the Lenox Hotel and at other venues. She played at rest homes, nursing homes and at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Jamaica Plain. Without a lesson and without the ability to read a note of music, she could play anything she heard with accuracy and feeling without missing a beat. But she always transposed the music to the key of C. Her grand nephew, Nick Stoia, a Ph.D. in music, once said to her after they played together ”You know, Aunty, people pay thousands and thousands of dollars to learn the musical technique that you taught yourself. You have the remarkable ability to play anything you hear.” Ursula Mills was a great friend to so many people. She was loved by people of all age groups and backgrounds. She went out of her way to help anyone she could. To quote a nurse who cared for her during one of her hospitalizations, she was a treasure. Funeral from the Brady & Fallon Funeral Home 10 Tower St. (Opp. Forest Hills MBTA Station) Jamaica Plain on Friday August 24 at 9 AM, followed by Funeral Mass in St. Thomas Aquinas Church at 10 AM. Visiting hours at the funeral home on Thursday from 4-8 PM. Interment New Calvary Cemetery.