Kate owned and operated the Fashion Shop in Hughes Springs, where she designed and made fashionable dresses and hats, prior to 1919. Kate also owned a Fashion Shoppe in Vivian. She was also an active member of the First Baptist Church, the Stamps Quartet Singing Group, and started the NYA (National Youth Administration) under the supervision of Lyndon Baines Johnson, enlisting many of their Cass County relatives and friends.
After Claude died in 1941, Kate returned to Hughes Springs with her daughter Claudia and granddaughter Mary Joyce Gibson. Kate was the first employee to go on payroll at Lone Star Defense Plant. She was hired in March 1943 as a supervisor of the hospital. She retired in June 1956 as Personnel Employee Service Officer. She was active in the First Baptist Church, Women's Missionary Union, Eastern Star Red Radiance Garden Club, Charter member of Femme Sole Club, helped organize the Patman Reunions, and continued her participation in Singing Groups in East Texas.
(History of Cass County People, by Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta, Texas)
After Claude died in 1941, Kate returned to Hughes Springs with her daughter Claudia and granddaughter Mary Joyce Gibson. Kate was the first employee to go on payroll at Lone Star Defense Plant. She was hired in March 1943 as a supervisor of the hospital. She retired in June 1956 as Personnel Employee Service Officer. She was active in the First Baptist Church, Women's Missionary Union, Eastern Star Red Radiance Garden Club, Charter member of Femme Sole Club, helped organize the Patman Reunions, and continued her participation in Singing Groups in East Texas.
(History of Cass County People, by Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta, Texas)
Kate owned and operated the Fashion Shop in Hughes Springs, where she designed and made fashionable dresses and hats, prior to 1919. Kate also owned a Fashion Shoppe in Vivian. She was also an active member of the First Baptist Church, the Stamps Quartet Singing Group, and started the NYA (National Youth Administration) under the supervision of Lyndon Baines Johnson, enlisting many of their Cass County relatives and friends.
After Claude died in 1941, Kate returned to Hughes Springs with her daughter Claudia and granddaughter Mary Joyce Gibson. Kate was the first employee to go on payroll at Lone Star Defense Plant. She was hired in March 1943 as a supervisor of the hospital. She retired in June 1956 as Personnel Employee Service Officer. She was active in the First Baptist Church, Women's Missionary Union, Eastern Star Red Radiance Garden Club, Charter member of Femme Sole Club, helped organize the Patman Reunions, and continued her participation in Singing Groups in East Texas.
(History of Cass County People, by Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta, Texas)
After Claude died in 1941, Kate returned to Hughes Springs with her daughter Claudia and granddaughter Mary Joyce Gibson. Kate was the first employee to go on payroll at Lone Star Defense Plant. She was hired in March 1943 as a supervisor of the hospital. She retired in June 1956 as Personnel Employee Service Officer. She was active in the First Baptist Church, Women's Missionary Union, Eastern Star Red Radiance Garden Club, Charter member of Femme Sole Club, helped organize the Patman Reunions, and continued her participation in Singing Groups in East Texas.
(History of Cass County People, by Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta, Texas)
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