Catherine was a daughter of the late Walter Lee and Lillie Lancaster Harger. Her mother died when she was 16, and she went out on her own, going to school to become a nurse. For a time, she was a cook in the home of her mother's cousin, Dr. Walter P. Wilson, in Madison, NC, (possibly how she got the idea to become a nurse). She was also related to Dr. William Artemus Payne, who she used to write to while she was at Sarah Leigh Nursing School in Norfolk, VA. She also attended Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC and NC State Normal and Industrial School, which is now UNCG in Greensboro, NC.
She married Grover Cleveland Crews in 1911. Sometime after he died, she married T.C. Metcalf, someone she didn't like to be reminded about. She eventually left him. She always went by her first husband, Cleve's last name.
Kate was a nurse and a dietician in the old Keeley Institute in Greensboro, and later in the old Glenwood Park Sanitorium--both no longer in existence. The Keeley building had been the old mansion of John Motley Morehead, and is now a historic landmark, "Blandwood", on Washington St. in Greensboro, NC. The old Keeley Institute was much larger than what is there now---with an herb and flower garden that was right off the kitchen---and the grounds were beautiful, with nice trees and shrubs---and a place where the patients could play horseshoes and croquet.
A picture of the old Glenwood Park Sanitorium is included here on this entry. It was at the corner of Glenwood Ave. and Grove St. in Greensboro, and was a large two-story Victorian building that looked as if it had been an old hotel at one time. It had a wrap around porch, and a drive that circled a fountain from which you could enter under an arched sign over two entrances. That beautiful building was torn down in the 1960's. Kate was also a dietician at the Greensboro Country Club in the 1930's. She and Cleve had a daughter, Mary Linden Crews, who died very young, and one son, Jack Harger Crews, who lived to be nearly 85 years old. She also had a younger sister, Nina Lee Harger Styers Adler, who she remained close to for as long as she lived, even though they lived in different parts of the country.
(Note: One line of Kate's family can be traced back to Robert Brisko of Brisko, Cumberland, England in ca. 1220 through her mother, Lillie Linden Lancaster Harger.)
She married Grover Cleveland Crews in 1911. Sometime after he died, she married T.C. Metcalf, someone she didn't like to be reminded about. She eventually left him. She always went by her first husband, Cleve's last name.
Kate was a nurse and a dietician in the old Keeley Institute in Greensboro, and later in the old Glenwood Park Sanitorium--both no longer in existence. The Keeley building had been the old mansion of John Motley Morehead, and is now a historic landmark, "Blandwood", on Washington St. in Greensboro, NC. The old Keeley Institute was much larger than what is there now---with an herb and flower garden that was right off the kitchen---and the grounds were beautiful, with nice trees and shrubs---and a place where the patients could play horseshoes and croquet.
A picture of the old Glenwood Park Sanitorium is included here on this entry. It was at the corner of Glenwood Ave. and Grove St. in Greensboro, and was a large two-story Victorian building that looked as if it had been an old hotel at one time. It had a wrap around porch, and a drive that circled a fountain from which you could enter under an arched sign over two entrances. That beautiful building was torn down in the 1960's. Kate was also a dietician at the Greensboro Country Club in the 1930's. She and Cleve had a daughter, Mary Linden Crews, who died very young, and one son, Jack Harger Crews, who lived to be nearly 85 years old. She also had a younger sister, Nina Lee Harger Styers Adler, who she remained close to for as long as she lived, even though they lived in different parts of the country.
(Note: One line of Kate's family can be traced back to Robert Brisko of Brisko, Cumberland, England in ca. 1220 through her mother, Lillie Linden Lancaster Harger.)
Catherine was a daughter of the late Walter Lee and Lillie Lancaster Harger. Her mother died when she was 16, and she went out on her own, going to school to become a nurse. For a time, she was a cook in the home of her mother's cousin, Dr. Walter P. Wilson, in Madison, NC, (possibly how she got the idea to become a nurse). She was also related to Dr. William Artemus Payne, who she used to write to while she was at Sarah Leigh Nursing School in Norfolk, VA. She also attended Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC and NC State Normal and Industrial School, which is now UNCG in Greensboro, NC.
She married Grover Cleveland Crews in 1911. Sometime after he died, she married T.C. Metcalf, someone she didn't like to be reminded about. She eventually left him. She always went by her first husband, Cleve's last name.
Kate was a nurse and a dietician in the old Keeley Institute in Greensboro, and later in the old Glenwood Park Sanitorium--both no longer in existence. The Keeley building had been the old mansion of John Motley Morehead, and is now a historic landmark, "Blandwood", on Washington St. in Greensboro, NC. The old Keeley Institute was much larger than what is there now---with an herb and flower garden that was right off the kitchen---and the grounds were beautiful, with nice trees and shrubs---and a place where the patients could play horseshoes and croquet.
A picture of the old Glenwood Park Sanitorium is included here on this entry. It was at the corner of Glenwood Ave. and Grove St. in Greensboro, and was a large two-story Victorian building that looked as if it had been an old hotel at one time. It had a wrap around porch, and a drive that circled a fountain from which you could enter under an arched sign over two entrances. That beautiful building was torn down in the 1960's. Kate was also a dietician at the Greensboro Country Club in the 1930's. She and Cleve had a daughter, Mary Linden Crews, who died very young, and one son, Jack Harger Crews, who lived to be nearly 85 years old. She also had a younger sister, Nina Lee Harger Styers Adler, who she remained close to for as long as she lived, even though they lived in different parts of the country.
(Note: One line of Kate's family can be traced back to Robert Brisko of Brisko, Cumberland, England in ca. 1220 through her mother, Lillie Linden Lancaster Harger.)
She married Grover Cleveland Crews in 1911. Sometime after he died, she married T.C. Metcalf, someone she didn't like to be reminded about. She eventually left him. She always went by her first husband, Cleve's last name.
Kate was a nurse and a dietician in the old Keeley Institute in Greensboro, and later in the old Glenwood Park Sanitorium--both no longer in existence. The Keeley building had been the old mansion of John Motley Morehead, and is now a historic landmark, "Blandwood", on Washington St. in Greensboro, NC. The old Keeley Institute was much larger than what is there now---with an herb and flower garden that was right off the kitchen---and the grounds were beautiful, with nice trees and shrubs---and a place where the patients could play horseshoes and croquet.
A picture of the old Glenwood Park Sanitorium is included here on this entry. It was at the corner of Glenwood Ave. and Grove St. in Greensboro, and was a large two-story Victorian building that looked as if it had been an old hotel at one time. It had a wrap around porch, and a drive that circled a fountain from which you could enter under an arched sign over two entrances. That beautiful building was torn down in the 1960's. Kate was also a dietician at the Greensboro Country Club in the 1930's. She and Cleve had a daughter, Mary Linden Crews, who died very young, and one son, Jack Harger Crews, who lived to be nearly 85 years old. She also had a younger sister, Nina Lee Harger Styers Adler, who she remained close to for as long as she lived, even though they lived in different parts of the country.
(Note: One line of Kate's family can be traced back to Robert Brisko of Brisko, Cumberland, England in ca. 1220 through her mother, Lillie Linden Lancaster Harger.)
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