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Remembering The Kristins and Kathleens in the World

Remembering The Kristins and Kathleens in the World

Last updated on: August 25, 2025 at 6:42 am by Mark Wilson

Remembering The Kristins and Kathleens in the World 2025-08-25T06:42:49-05:00 Mark Wilson

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When you look long and hard and sometimes short and easy, you can find similar people with your name throughout history and living in the world today.

My name is Mark named after the Gospel writer who relates the story of Jesus Christ in the Holy Bible.

There are many Mark Wilsons including

Mark Wilson (magician) (1929–2021)

He was an American magician and author. He was widely credited as the first major television magician, and in the process established the viability of illusion shows as a television format. (Wikipedia)

Wilson (center) as part of The Magic Land of Allakazam cast in 1960

But this post isn’t about me, but about some special people close to me who share the names known as Kristin and Kathleen.

Kristins and Kathleens in Music

Kristin Andreassen – Crayola Doesn’t Make A Color For Your Eyes

I went to see the doctor, I’d come down with the blues
She said that “I can’t cure you, but here’s something you could do
Take out a piece of paper and go sit down for a while
And draw a pretty picture of something that makes you smile”
Well, I know what makes me happy, I didn’t have to think for long
But when I tried to draw it, it always came out wrong
I had a box of 12, 48, and 64
But nowhere could I find that one shade I was looking for
I guess I realized, shoulda come as no surprise
Crayola doesn’t make a color for your eyes
There is no way that I could possibly describe you
Crayola doesn’t make a color to draw my love

Daniel O’Donnell – I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen

I’ll take you home again, Kathleen
Across the ocean wild and wide To where your heart has ever been
Since you were first my bonnie bride.
The roses all have left your cheek.
I’ve watched them fade away and die Your voice is sad when e’er you speak
And tears bedim your loving eyes.
Oh! I will take you back, Kathleen
To where your heart will feel no pain
And when the fields are fresh and green
I’II take you to your home again!

Kristins and Kathleens In Writing

Non-Fiction

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012)
by Kristen Iversen

Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated “the most contaminated site in America.” Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and—unknown to those who lived there—tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It’s also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both family and government. Her father’s hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats—best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities.

Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving. -Amazon Description

Women in the Valley of the Kings:
The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age (2024)
by Kathleen Sheppard

The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way who paved the way for exploration in Egypt and laid the groundwork for Egyptology. -Amazon Description

Fiction

The Book of Lost Names (2020)
by Kristin Harmel

Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this “sweeping and magnificent” (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker’s Wife. -Amazon Description

The Kitchen House: A Novel – Book 1 of 2: Kitchen House | (2010)
by Kathleen Grissom

Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.

In time, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master’s opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves.

Through the unique eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom’s debut novel unfolds in a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of class, race, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds.
-Amazon Description

Poetry

Just Why? (2015) by Kristin Wilson

Time
Yet time keeps coming and going,
Living and dying, Each second in its turn.
What would happen if one second Turns away in distraction
And forgets to have its go.

Why?
We laugh and then we cry.

This Far: Poems (Paraclete Poetry) (2019)
by Kathleen O’Toole

My favorite: carved marble from Syria
enclosing a sliver of St. Baudine’s bone, its libation opening
like a tiny Holy Water font, invites the tender to pour
oil or water through the ark, the faithful to anoint
or bless themselves with liquid that has touched
the holy saint’s remains.

Kristins and Kathleens in Film

Kathleen (1941) is a American comedy drama film directed by Harold S. Bucquet starring Shirley Temple, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day and Gail Patrick. It was Temple’s first comeback role since “retiring” from the screen a year earlier. It was the only movie she made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (Wikipedia)

Kathleen is a 12 year old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true. Kathleen and her nanny, Mrs. Farrell do not get along, so her father hires a psychologist name Dr. Kent to be her new nanny for the summer. Her father has a new girlfriend, named Lorraine, who he is considering for his wife and mother to Kathleen. Kathleen does not like her and Lorraine is cold to Kathleen. Kathleen envisions Dr. Kent as the perfect mother for her and wife for her father.—Tony Fontana <[email protected]>

Kristin’s Christmas Past (2013) Given the opportunity to visit her estranged family on Christmas Eve 1996, Kristin Cartwright hopes to change her past in order to improve her current life in 2013. (IMDB)

Historic Kristins and Kathleens

Kristin Bass

Kristin L Bass served as a United States Air Force officer. She made history by becoming the first and only female fighter pilot assigned at the 188th Fighter Wing, Arkansas Air National Guard, Fort Smith, Arkansas. (Wikipedia)

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Dennis L. Brambl (Released) Aviatrix | Flickr

Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
(February 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948)

Also known as “Kick” Kennedy was an American socialite. She was the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald, a sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, and the wife of the Marquess of Hartington, heir apparent to the 10th Duke of Devonshire.

When her father was serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Kathleen made many friends in London and was the “debutante of 1938″.[3] Working with the Red Cross, she began a romantic relationship with Lord Hartington, whom she married in May 1944. He was killed on active service in Belgium only four months later. Kathleen died in a plane crash in 1948, flying to the south of France while on vacation with her new partner, the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam.

Kennedy in 1944, when she was a member of the American Red Cross stationed in England

Saintly Kristins and Kathleens

Christina the Astonishing
(c.1150 – 24 July 1224)

Also known as Christina Mirabilis, was a Christian holy woman born in Brustem (near Sint-Truiden), Belgium. Christina is primarily known for her legendary resurrection during her funeral mass, and numerous other miracles attributed to her during her life. Thomas of Cantimpré wrote a hagiography of her based on accounts from people who knew her, which made her known outside of Sint-Truiden.

She was considered a saint in her own time, and for centuries following her death, as noted by her appearance in the Fasti Mariani Calendar of Saints of 1630, and Alban Butler‘s Lives of the Saints – Concise Edition, published in the 18th century.[Literary 1] Though never formally canonized, she is commemorated in the current edition of the Roman Martyrology on 24 July, the day of her death. (Wikipedia)

Saint Christina the Astonishing (Mirabilis) front of prayer card from 1892 confirming by the Bishop Victor-Josephus that her relics were at the time cared for by the Redemptorists and that her Feast day was July 24th.

Catherine of Alexandria

Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine, was, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christian around age 14, converted hundreds of people to Christianity, and was martyred around age 18. (Wikipedia)

Personal Kristins and Kathleens I know.

Kristin and Kathleen Nealon
August 25, 1974

Kristin is my lovely wife
Kathleen is my lovely sister-in-law

Today is their birthday
And I wrote this for them.
Happy Birthday.

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