Katharine Stuart Hay — obituary locator, September 8, 1997, B4

Courtesy of the Hammond Public Library. Original 1997 Hammond Times/Northwest Indiana Times obituary index, PDF page 80, visually inspected October 4, 2026. Entry: Katharine Stuart Hay, age 63, publication September 8, 1997, page B4. Death-date field blank; index prints Plymouth, MO, retained as discrepancy against the Minnesota death index. This identifies a newspaper locator, not the death date and not proof of descendants. Person: [[person:katharine_stuart_1934|Katharine Stuart]]. Free digital obituary retrieval is available at https://www.hammondlibrary.org/local-history . No request sent.

9 October 2026 — unmapped evidence review, Archive AI: Associated people are the source’s named subjects or explicitly qualified research candidates. This organizational link does not confirm an uncertain identity, parentage, maiden name or date. Existing source notes and contradictions are preserved.