Werner, Kathrin's Love, was the son of a well respected teacher Gallus Engler, who was running the orphanage where Kathrin grew up. He was completely opposed to a marriage with the orphan girl Kathrin.
As Werner in 1924 emigrated to Canada they promised to wait for each other. Werner broke contact with his father and never saw him again. In 1929 Kathrin followed him to Vancouver.
Kathrin is grandmother to 18 grandchildren and great grandmother to 26 great grandchildren and has reserved a place in the grave beside her husband.