Individual Details

Katie Ryder is recalled as a woman of considerable beauty and much personal charm. During the 1920s, she worked in Winnipeg as a clerk for the Great Western Life Insurance Company. In January 1929, she received a bequest from her step-grandfather John Knight, her grandmother's second husband. By then she was already at the TB San in Ninette Manitoba. Recovered later in life, she married a dairy farmer from Coquitlam BC, where she lived her last years, the happy step-mother to her husband's two daughters. It was a grief stricken husband who phoned to report her death in 1952 at the age of 56. There were no children to her marriage.

[Picture of Catherine Ryder]

References: Will of John Knight , Winnipeg 1929; Recollections of Irene Lahey; photo album of Jenny Simpson.

Birth	3 Mar 1895	Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death	1952	Port Moody, British Columbia

Father	MARK MATHEWSON RYDER (1858 - 1905)
Mother	MARY ANN CANN (1868 - 1918)
Sibling	MARY JANE (JENNY) RYDER (1887 - 1956)
Sibling	ANN MABEL RYDER (1891 - 1918)
Sibling	LILLIAN RYDER (1892 - 1924)
Sibling	ALFRED ERNEST RYDER (1899 - )
Sibling	THOMAS H. RYDER (1899 - 1905)
Sibling	MARK VICTOR RYDER (1901 - )