Katherine Kashevarof
May 06, 1906, Unga Island, Alaska — March 22, 1998, Seldovia, Alaska
Buried in Seldovia City Cemetery Plot #224KATHERINE FOX VINBERG KASHEVAROF, was born May 6, 1906, in Unga.
Her father, Thomas Fox, was from England. He married Emma Gardner in Aleutians East, Alaska and they became the parents of nine children. Emma and the children moved to Unalaska in the early 1930s.
Katherine married Ernest VINBERG in 1924 and had five children: Esther, Ernest, Hubert, Emil and Don Vinberg. In 1934, she married Andrew KASHEVAROF and had five more children: Andrew, Norman, Frank, Georjean and Diane.
She and her family lived in Unalaska during World War II. On June 3, 1942, the Japanese bombed their home in Unalaska. The family, along with the other villagers, was evacuated to White Salmon, Wash., until 1944. When they returned to Unalaska, they found their home in a shambles. Her husband died in 1945. From 1948-50, Mrs. Kashevarof owned and operated Kate’s Kozy Kitchen, a restaurant and bakery in Unalaska. The family moved to Seldovia in 1951, and Katherine clerked in Morris’s General Store, and worked in Wakefield Seafoods crab plant. In 1975, a new 108-foot crab fishing vessel owned by Parks & Ringstad was christened the ‘‘Katie K.’’ in her honor. In 1996, she was named CITC’s Elder of the Year and a large 90th birthday party was held in her honor. She had lived in Anchorage in the Robert Rude Center until her death on March 22, 1998, at the age of 91. She was buried in Seldovia Cemetery, next to her daughter, Diane Helena Kashevarof. Diane died in Anchorage on October 20, 1959. She was 16 years old.