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Note: According to the 1900 census, Kathleen's mother, Junna, was mother of two children, but only one (Lena/Kathleen) living. Her mother died at age 26 in 1902 when Kathleen was 9 yrs old. Her father, Servaas Vertregt, remarried to Adriana Verhock in 1905 at the age of 33. Servaas and Adriana had 6 children (Kathleen's step sisters & brothers)
The 1910 Federal Census -- Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, Kent Michigan lists Kathleen, age 16, working as a Milliner in a hat shop. She lives with her father, step-mother, 2 step-sisters and 1 step-brother.
She is not listed in the 1920 census as a member of the Vertregt household. It is unknown where she was between 1910 and 1917. What is known is that she married Garmen Van Polen in 1917. He then served in WWI. Their two children were born in Menlo Park, CA, 1926 and 1928. The family is listed there in the 1930 Federal Census. Soon 1930, she divorced Garmen and moved with her two children to St. Helena, California. (The children never saw their father again.) Kathleen worked as a cook for several people, including the Blair family (Mr. Blair was a chemist who figured out how to keep the color in canned peas. He later moved to Oak Park, IL).
She met Harry Levy at a to-do at the Tucker Farm Center and they married. Harry grew up in the San Louis Obispo area. He told Jackson about when he was a boy he had a cart and a dog and he attached the two and put another kid in the cart. The dog saw a cat and took off and the kid's head got caught...anyway the moral of the story is "you don't harness your pets. No good will come of it." and had run a grocery business in San Francisco. He survived the 1906 earthquake, but his business did not. His mother and brother stayed in San Francisco, but Harry moved to the St. Helena area due to the poor health of his first wife (Tina). She did not survive. He owned a ranch where he raised chickens and sold the eggs. He was a member of the Order of the RED MEN, and was a past sachem of the Walla Walla Tribe #141, SF. He was also a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West. Kathleen had one child with Harry, named Kathy Levy.
After Harry died, the ranch was sold and Kathleen moved to a home in Calistoga, California. A long time member of the Rebeccas (Odd Fellows), Kathleen spent her final years in the Odd Fellows Home in Saratoga, California.
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