Thelma Rydeen, Kathryn Tesack, and friend on sailboat, Puget Sound, August 1922

• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Sailing > Washington (State) > Seattle; Williams; Kathryn Elizabeth; 1906-1999; Mercer; Mercer Island; Nome; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/9268

Kathryn Elizabeth Tesack (1906-1999) was born in Nome, Alaska to John Anthony Tesack (1874-1960) and Mame Elizabeth Tesack (-1955). John owned a grocery store in Seattle from at least 1920-1940. Kathryn attended UW from 1926-1928, and in 1935 married Walter Henry Williams (1899-1992), in Nanjing, China, where their son John Walter Olding Williams was born in 1936. After retirement from the State Department, Kathryn and Walter returned to Seattle. Thelma R. Rydeen (1905-2005) was born in Candle, Alaska to Almer Rydeen (1878-1964), gold miner and member of Alaska Territorial Legislature. Thelma's mother died before 1910, and she was raised on Mercer Island by her uncle and aunt. She attended Garfield High School, became a nurse, and married Boris V. Glazounow (1904-1992) in 1931. In this image, Thelma Rydeen (1905-2005), Kathryn Tesack and an unidentified woman pose on a sailboat in Puget Sound. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday Times, May 3, 1964, page 77 1 photographic print: b&w; 2.5 x 3.5 in.