Kathryn (Spurgin) Bennett was born in Madison, Indiana, to Leo and Sarah Spurgin in 1940. By 1943, the family moved to Columbus, Indiana, where Kathryn graduated from Columbus High School with the Class of 1958 and enrolled in Indiana University as a history major, Latin minor. She became an active member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority where everyone came to know her as Kathy.

 

Each summer, Kathy worked at the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department where she renewed her friendship with CHS classmate, James A.”Jim” Bennett. The two were married on June 2, 1962, and moved to Bloomington, before Jim’s first year at the IU School of Law and Kathy’s first teaching position in nearby Greene County, Indiana. 

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After the birth of their daughter, Susan, in 1963, the couple moved to Ohio where Jim finished law school at Chase College in Cincinnati and Kathy taught Latin at Sycamore High School in Blue Ash, until the birth of their son, Steve, in 1965. After Jim passed the bar exam in 1968, their next move was to Gallia County, Ohio, for his appointment as assistant prosecutor and Kathy’s position as Latin teacher at Gallia Academy High School. In 1978, Kathy and Jim adopted their niece, Christy, in time to have three graduates of Gallia Academy by 1983.

 

In 2001, the couple retired and moved to Indianapolis, to be near Steve, his wife Michelle, and their growing family. Kathy lived in Indianapolis after Susan passed in 2005 and Jim in 2009 where she became a private tutor, writer, and especially grandmother to Christy’s two and Steve’s eight children. She also traveled frequently to Washington state for visits with Christy and her family. Kathy moved from Indianapolis to Salt Lake City, Utah, back to Blue Ash, Ohio, and finally home again to Indiana, to be near Steve and his family. Now that her grandchildren are beginning to marry, Kathy is confident of a new career as a great-grandmother with several more stories to write.