KATHERINE PETERS YAMADA  |  Director

Katherine Peters Yamada joined TGHS soon after moving from Silver Lake with her husband, Glenn, and two daughters. They purchased a 1940 American Colonial Revival in the pending South Cumberland Heights Historic District.

A journalism graduate of Fresno State College, she served briefly on an earlier TGHS board and began writing for the Glendale News-Press. While volunteering in Special Collections at Glendale’s Central Library she was inspired to write a history column, Verdugo Views, published from 2001 to 2020. She served as president of the Friends of the Glendale Public Library, National Charity League of Glendale, Glendale Philharmonic Committee and three PTAs, and as a Heritage Square docent. Katherine ``searched for her roots’’ in Holland, Prussia and Russia, and in Japan for Glenn’s family. She is currently writing a fifth family history and a series of articles on a great uncle who helped found a relief society which celebrated 100 years in 2020.