Kerry woman ‘Kathy White House’ to be feted

It’s a story that might have made another book in a town that has more literary output than most.

Kathy Buckley, born in Listowel, Co Kerry, worked as a cook to three US presidents before retiring to her home town, where she died in 1969.

Local historian and relative Vincent Carmody has lots of personal anecdotes as well as memorabilia from her time in the White House — menus, signed photographs, and a freedom key that was given to president Calvin Coolidge by the people of Fort Worth, Texas.