Kindel, Katrina

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Kindel, Katrina

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Katrina Cup van Asmus was born in 1904. She married Charles Kindel in 1924. She was heavily involved with the local and national Humane Society and was instrumental in forming the Michigan Federation of Humane Societies. Mrs. Kindel managed construction of the WPA project to build an animal pound on Grandville Avenue in the early 1930s. She served as a trustee and vice president of the Starr Commonwealth, a nationally-known training school and home for disadvantaged boys near Albion, MI. Mrs. Kindel collected rare books and had a large collection of Lincolnia. She died in 1987.

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1975

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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

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RHC-23_48Kindel

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Kindel, Katrina, “Kindel, Katrina,” Digital Collections, accessed April 24, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/22649.
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