Person:Katherine Braun (1)

BIRTH: Chicago birth index (FHL FILM # 1287722). Sex incorrectly listed as male. No name entered. Midwife Mrs. Baade. 1880 Chicago, IL census gives her age as 2; census of Chicago, IL 1900 age is 22.

MARRIAGE: 1903 Chicago, IL Vital Records, FHL FILM #------. Age is given as 23. The pastor of the Evang. Zions Church (Deutsche V. Evang. Lutheran Zions Kirche) in Chicago from 1893-1911 was Paul Foerster. The 1904 address of Zion Church is listed as Union Avenue and Fourteenth Street in Chicago. In 1900 the Braun family lived at 641 S. Union Avenue.

OBIT: 1957-11-12 Chicago Tribune (IL)

Mrs. Catherine Haskin, 79, of 4911 Waveland av., wife of Robert E., international president of the Brotherhood of Bookbinders, died yesterday in Swedish Covenant hospital. Other survivors include two sons, Robert A. ans William, and a daughter, Mrs. Edna Simmons. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the chapel at 4553 Milwaukee av.

1957-11-12 Chicago Tribune (IL)

HASKIN Catherine Haskin, beloved wife of Robert E.; loving mother of Edna Simmons, Robert A., and William; sister of Marie Fuller and Henry Braun; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Service Thursday, 2:30p.m., at funeral home, 4553-61 Milwaukee avenue. Interment Montrose. Member of Ravenswood chapter, No. 190, O. E. S. Washington, D. C., papers please copy.

BURIAL: First buried at Montrose Cemetery, moved in Feb. 1958 to Ridgewood Cemetery, Niles, when husband was buried there three months later.