Kathleen was the fifth child of Richard Augustus and Margaret May Young. On Jan 8, 1916, in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Shortly after, her parents separated, and she was living with her mother and sister Doreen as her mother became the cook at a lumber camp on Vancouver Island. Her brothers stayed on the mainland with another family, where Harry attended school. In 1922 Margaret May married Harry Dingee, a foreman at the lumber camp. The family settled in Duncan, B.C., and later in 1922, her half-sister Tootsie was born. Public education was covered to grade 8, and there was no money for high school. Her sister reported that they both went into service.
She married Edwin Bennet in 1938 at the age of twenty-two and subsequently had five children.
I recall seeing her in 1976 when my brother and I drove out west. She lived near Duncan and was always smiling, kind, and generous.
