Kate Meek, born April 30, 1864 in Ohio and a graduate of Indiana University, began her 43-year teaching career in a small Ohio country school.  In 1912 she began her 26-year career at South Pasadena High School, teaching mathematics (algebra, advanced algebra, geometry, and trigonometry).  She retired in 1938, at age 74, to her newly built home in San Marino.

Miss Meek died age 82 in San Marino on June 26, 1946.  She was survived by her sisters, Anna Meek and Alice Hunton.