Name: Kathryn VroomInterviewer: Katelynn O'Neill, Grade 9Born May 4, 1938 in the Digby Hospital, she lived with her mother Gladys Buckler and her father Atlee Buckler in Bear River. Kay, as she is called by friends and family, had two younger brothers and a younger sister that she looked after while she grew up. She had a busy childhood, her mother made her family's clothes. Her family was poor, but there was always a lot to eat. Kathryn went to school at Bear River school in a one room school house, grade one to grade seven. One teacher taught all the students in the school. From grade eight to grade twelve was a different school called Oakedean. She went to that school for three years. She traveled to school by taxi everyday. Kay quit in grade 10 and started to work at the Harbourview, cleaning cabins. Kay and her family didn't travel to Digby often; they shopped in Bear River every Sunday evening. Her only memories of Digby are Margolian's Clothes and Footwear (it was where Mr. Bargain's is now). And a place called the Cornwallis Café (where the House of Wong is now). Some of the stores are the same as they are now.Kathryn married a man named Edwin Bruce Vroom, and they had three children. They lived in Deep Brook for most of their life. In 1990, Kathryn's husband died from cancer. She moved into Digby where she lives happily.