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Katherine Helen Arnoldy to Anna Katherine Holz (1855-1944), born in Iowa, and Nicholas "Nick" Arnoldy (1844-1920), born in Kaschenbach, Bitburg-Prum, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. She had nine sisters and brothers. Each of her parents had an eighth-grade education, and her father worked as a
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