When Katherine Butte was born on 22 April 1891, in Emery, Utah, United States, her father, John Butte, was 37 and her mother, Annie Briggs, was 31. She married Hans Emanuel Edward Hamann on 26 October 1911. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Salt Lake City Ward 6, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 3 September 1951, at the age of 60, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.