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- From: State Historical Society of Iowa, The Annals of Iowa, Vol. 17, No. 5 (Summer 1930) Editorial, p. 397:
"Kathryn (Prentis) Munger was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, August 25, 1877, and died in Sioux City, Iowa, January 6, 1930. Burial was in Graceland Park Cemetery, Sioux City. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Prentis. She was graduated from Vermillion High School, after which she attended Miss Capin's School for Girls at Northampton, Massachusetts, was one year at Leland Stanford University, was graduated from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, and later attended the Chicago School of Music. On June 8, 1904, she was married to Robert H. Munger, now a judge of the Fourth Judicial District of Iowa. Soon after their marriage they removed to Sioux City. She attained prominence in church and social work, in society, and in partiotic organizations. She was a deaconess of the First Congregational Church of Sioux City, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Community House, Sioux City. She was prominent in the Federation of Women's Clubs and was a member of several social and patriotic organizations, was a past state regent, and at the time of her death, vice president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a member of the commission, provided for by the Forty-second General Assembly, along with former Senator Grout, and with Curator E. R. Harlan of the Historical Memorial and Art Department, to locate the graves of soldiers of the American Revolution who were buried in Iowa."
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