 Her personality and friendly nature ensured she always had friends wherever she went.She eventually was known by locals as "Aunt Kate", and according to reports from Bend locals, "She was a fund-raising dynamo, able to shake down almost any business or person for a contribution to a social cause; during the Great Depression she made gallons and gallons of soup to help out the hobos".She never achieved any of the fame she had briefly held in the Yukon, although she made full use of the memories.