Biography

July 15, 1920 · New Ulm, Minnesota, USA

October 14, 2016 · Mankato, Minnesota, USA (natural causes)

Kathryn Elizabeth Hohn

1.70 m

After leaving acting to marry and raise three children with Hugh Beaumont, she taught school, earned a Master's Degree in Educational Psychology, became a licensed psychologist and after retirement returned to her first love - writing. She published two books, "A Long Year of Silence" and "Wild Orphan" through Edinborough Press.

Husband Hugh Beaumont ("Ward Cleaver" of Leave It to Beaver (1957)) died suddenly while they were visiting their son, Hunter, a psychology professor in Munich, Germany.

Kathryn Adams Doty was born July 15, 1920, in New Ulm, Minnesota, and began working in Hollywood in the late 1930s after competing in a radio contest called "Gateway to Hollywood." She began using the stage name Kathryn Adams and scored her first screen part in 1939's "5th Avenue Girl," starring Ginger Rogers. She married fellow actor Hugh Beaumont. With Beaumont, she had three children. Her final film acting part was in 1946 as Phyllis Hamilton in "Blonde for a Day," in which she starred alongside Beaumont. The couple divorced in 1974. Kathryn later married Fred Doty, who died in 2011. After retiring from acting, Kathryn worked as a teacher and a psychologist. She also wrote two novels, "A Long Year of Silence" and "Wild Orphan," and an autobiography, "Becoming the Mother of Me." She is survived by her three children, Hunter, Kristan and Mark; six grandchildren; and ten great-grand children.

Retired from films a year after marrying Hugh Beaumont in 1941, but returned once to co-star with him in the film Blonde for a Day (1946).

Lived in Mankato, Minnesota, with her husband, Fred Doty.

[on why she left films] I didn't regret leaving it; I regret not appreciating it more at the time. It all came so easy, I just didn't think of it then, like I do now. Hugh [husband Hugh Beaumont] didn't ask me to quit--I just quit to raise my children. It was a different world. Acting wasn't something I longed for--it just happened.