Kathryn Weber

Kathryn Susan Weber was the eighth of 11 children born to William and Catherine (DeHeck) McLaughlin on March 14, 1915 in Churchville, Iowa. She grew up on a farm near Belmond, Iowa where she had fond memories of tagging along with six older brothers while being allowed to enter into their adventures and accompanying them on buggy trips into town for groceries where the proprietor would give them a sack of candies for the trip home.

Kathryn graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College (now the University of Northern Iowa) in Cedar Falls in 1941 and taught in several small schools in Wright an...