Kathleen’s early teen years were filled with attending school and church, keeping up with her studies, helping out with the housework and socializing with friends. It was also a time of simple pleasures. Like many young girls at the time, Kathleen looked forward to obtaining a driver’s license. She failed her driver’s test the first time (and still blames the old car one of her brothers lent her for practice.) Two days later, she went back in a different car and passed.

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and picked up her good friend Elaine Roberts, whose parents operated the local grocery store. Elaine had some money from working in the store, and the two set off for a drive to Borden. While touring around Borden, they stopped at the lobster cannery and bought a large can of lobster. Lobster was not quite a luxury then, but it was rarely a part of most family diets. On the way back to Kinkora, Kathleen pulled the car off to the side of the road and suggested to Elaine they should sample the lobster. Opening the can, they proceeded to eat the lobster with their fingers until there was nothing left. Kathleen remembers it as one of the best feed of lobsters she ever had.

Meanwhile, a war had broken out. Coming on the heels of the Depression, it was one more challenge that faced the Keefe family. Of the surviving family members, siX sons volunteered to serve in Canada’s armed forces.