Career
She was the "first woman elected" citywide to the council. "Craven was an outspoken foe of urban renewal.. On the council she never voted for a renewal project
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Her bete noire during four boisterous years as councilor was Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) Administrator Edward Logue."
"She was born in Charlestown and was a graduate of Saint Patrick"s Commercial High School, Watertown, and attended the Bentley School of Accounting. John Jay Craven (Doctorate-Roxbury, 1930-1938).. Craven was the mother of eleven children, having given birth to 16 children in all.
Katherine and John Craven"s 11 surviving children, Patricia, Maureen, John Jay Junior., Sheila, Kathleen, Pauline, Francis Xavier, twins Brendan Michael and Barbara Ellen, Susan and Timothy, resided in the Boston area and produced 52 grandchildren.