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Portrait of Katherine Margaret Amend Weber
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Katherine Margaret Amend Weber

December 31, 1879 – February 18, 1953
Lived 73 years
Quincy Valley Cemetery · Wenatchee, Washington
Life story

Katherine Margaret Amend was born December 31, 1879 in Walter, Russia. She met Heinrich Weber and they were married on January 18, 1899 in Walter, Saratov, Russia. The family had two children while in Russia and then immigrated to the United States in 1902, on board a ship named the Friedrich Der Grosse. The family settled in Quincy, Washington where they farmed for 40 years before retiring and moving to Wenatchee, Washington. Ten children were born to Heinrich and Katherine Weber, all who survived to adulthood. The Webers celebrated 50 years of marriage in 1949, with all of their children present. Katherine passed away in 1953 at the age of 73. She is interred in the Quincy Valley Cemetery, in Quincy, Washington.

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1879
Born December 31
1889
Katherine was 10 when Washington became the 42nd state
1892
Katherine was 13 when Quincy began as a Great Northern Railway camp
1907
Katherine was 28 when Quincy incorporated as a town
1916
Katherine was 37 when William Boeing founded the company that became Boeing
1920
Katherine was 41 when Prohibition began
1933
Katherine was 54 when construction began on Grand Coulee Dam
1940
Katherine was 61 when the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in the wind
1951
Katherine was 72 when "I Love Lucy" debuted on CBS
1953
Passed away February 18, age 73
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