description: Mary Katharine McDermott was born on June 17, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas to Katharine Stewart McDermott and George Thomas McDermott. McDermott was the middle child, with an older sister, Jane (Hergeneter), and a younger brother, James, who was killed during World War II. McDermott’s father was a Federal District Court Judge. He raised his children to be aware of social justice causes and how these causes became political issues affected by public policy. Close to her father, his sudden death in 1937 at age fifty affected McDermott profoundly.
language: English
title: Years of discovery: A woman's lifelong journey
titlecomplete: Years of discovery: A woman's lifelong journey (Visions and nightmares, ends and beginnings)
publisher: Scribendi Press