Katie Wolf

Wolf was born to parents John and Helen Munsterman on July 9, 1925, in Wolcott, Indiana, and raised on the family farm. Her father was a Republican precinct committee member. She graduated from Wolcott High School in 1943 and earned a degree from Indiana Business College and also enrolled at Purdue University. She married Charlie Wolf in 1945. The couple lived in Reynolds, then moved to Monticello in 1978.^[1] Charlie Wolf died in 2010.^[2] Katie Wolf died on May 26, 2020, at the White Oak Health Campus in Monticello.^[1]

Wolf was elected a member of the Democratic National Committee in 1962.^[1] In December 1967,^[3] she was appointed White County clerk, a position she subsequently held for two full terms in her own right. Wolf served one term as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1984 to 1986, then was elected to consecutive terms in the Indiana Senate until her retirement in 2000.^[1][4]