Gary Kent Potter

Gary Kent Potter, 86, of Washington D.C., passed away on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at home.

Born on June 8, 1939, in California, he was the son of the late Max Ardra Potter and Edna Atteberry Potter. He was the husband of the late Virginia Elizabeth Potter.

He was a dedicated apostle of Christ the King.

Gary grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended The Pasadena Playhouse, a professional theater academy and college; then spent two years sailing in the Merchant Marine and another four living in France, where he discovered the Catholic Faith and became a convert. Following Baptism into the Church, he lived in New York. He relocated to the District of Columbia and married his wife, Virginia.

Gary began his career in Catholic journalism in 1966 as a founding editor of Triumph magazine. He also wrote for and edited Truth & Justice and CCPA News & Views (the publication of Catholics for Christian Political Action). Articles by Gary Potter have appeared in National Review, Human Events, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the National Catholic Register, Faith & Reason, The Wanderer, The Remnant, The Angelus, and numerous other places. He authored In Reaction, a series of Catholic essays. He wrote three books After the Boston Heresy Case, As it is in Heaven, and Young Tony & the Priest. Gary was also a gifted speaker and enjoyed presenting at various Catholic conferences.

Surviving Gary are daughter Veronica Potter Kosch, son-in-law John Kosch, and three grandsons, Max, Jack, and Gavin Kosch.

A Requiem Mass will be offered for the repose of Mr. Potter’s soul Saturday, November 29, 2025 at 11:00 am at St. Thomas the Apostle Church located at 2665 Woodley Rd NW, Washington, DC 20008. Interment will be private.

“Our hopes for early glory fail,

The causes that we fought for die;

Still avidly His Cross we hail,

In silhouette against the sky.”

• For Gary Potter by Charles Coulombe