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- Katherine Lois Haskell and her mother Mary Kibbe Haskell embarked on a trip around the world in 1900. According to family anecdotes, Katherine's parents did not approve of her suitor, Herbert Randall Straight, and hoped this trip would prove to be a distraction. Herbert met up with Katherine in London where they were married in 1901.
At the outbreak of World War I, Mrs. Straight was in Norway, while her three children were in Germany. They sailed from Europe to America on August 29, 1914.
Extracted from Ancestry.com, Miller / Straight Family Tree
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Bartlesville Examiner
February 28, 1969
Mrs. Katherine Haskell Straight, 93, mother of Russell J. Straight and Mrs. Lois S. Johnson, of Bartlesville, who died at 11:30 a.m. Friday at her home at 935 S. Cherokee.
Mrs. Straight was born in Titusville, Pa., on Dec 23, 1875, and when a small child moved with her parents to Bradford, Pa., where she was reared and received her high school education. She graduated from Stanford University in 1898, after attending Vassar College for two years. She taught school in California and at Vassar College in the chemistry department. She and Mr. H. R. Straight were married in London, England in May 1901. Following their marriage they made their home in Bradford, Pa., until coming to Bartlesville in 1912. Mr. Straight, who was president of Cities Service Oil Co, died May 4, 1963.
She was a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, D.A.R., Tuesday Club, Musical Research Club, Colonial Dames of America, and was the first state president of League of Women Voters, a member of YWCA Board, and served as chairman of the Library Board.
She is also survived by another daughter, Mrs. Harriet Stevens, Chicago, Ill.; five grandchildren, and eleven great grandchildren.
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