When Katherine Anna Hasch was born on 2 February 1896, in Schönbruch, Kreis Bartenstein, East Prussia, Prussia, Germany, her father, Ferdinand Paul Hasch, was 16 and her mother, Katherine Caroline Kranzlein, was 16. She married Carroll Verne Armstrong on 5 April 1916. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Rock, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Long Pine Election Precinct, Rock, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 12 May 1955, in Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States.