Kathryn Crosby: Difference between revisions

Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff on November 25, 1933, in [[West Columbia, Texas]], in family Delbert Emery Grandstaff, Sr and Olive Catherine Grandstaff ([[née]] Stokely). Kathryn hs four siblings. She, at three, was Splash Day Princess,<ref name="google/books=HuAlEAAAQBAJ"/> in Corpus Christi, at fifteen, was ''Miss Buccaneer Navy'',<ref name="presstelegram.laserfiche/679">{{cite news |title=Kathy |url=https://presstelegram.laserfiche.com/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=679&dbid=0&repo=PressTelegram&cr=1 |access-date=24 March 2023 |work=Southland - press telegram |date=January-December 1962}}</ref><ref name="google/books=HuAlEAAAQBAJ">{{cite book |last1=Hecker |first1=Gaylon Finklea |last2=Odom |first2=Marianne |title=Growing Up in the Lone Star State: Notable Texans Remember Their Childhoods |date=June 2021 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-9997318-4-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HuAlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT212&lpg=PT212&dq=%22Miss+Buccaneer+Navy%22&pg=PT212 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="newspaperarchive/robstown-record-may-05-1949-p-1">{{cite news |title=Page 1 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/robstown-record-may-05-1949-p-1/ |access-date=24 March 2023 |work=[[Robstown Record]] (1926-1977) |publisher=[[Newspaper Archive]] |date=May 5, 1949 |location=[[Robstown, Texas]] |page=1}}</ref> in Corpus Christi, later, Miss Splash Day Princess, Queen of the 1950 Houston Fat Stock Show and Livestock Exposition,<ref name="houstonchronicle/7521943">{{cite news |last1=Gonzales |first1=J. R. |title=Catching up with Kathryn Crosby |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/bayou-city-history/article/Catching-up-with-Kathryn-Crosby-7521943.php |access-date=24 March 2023 |work=[[Houston Chronicle]] |date=8 June 2016}}</ref> Runner-up to Miss Texas 1952, and Queen of the [[Houston Buffaloes]].<ref name="newspapers/clip/37485369">{{cite news |title=Bing Crosby, Young Texas Beauty Marry |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37485369/bing_crosby_young_texas_beauty_marry/ |access-date=24 March 2023 |work=[[Arizona Daily Star]] |date=25 October 1957 |pages=10}}</ref> She graduated from the [[University of Texas at Austin]] with a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] degree in 1955. Two years later she became [[Bing Crosby]]'s second wife, being more than thirty years his junior. The couple had three children, [[Harry Crosby (businessman)|Harry]], [[Mary Crosby|Mary Frances]], and [[Nathaniel Crosby|Nathaniel]].{{Citation needed |date=June 2021}}