I went to work for Climax in 1947. I didn’t have a car, but things were simple, you could walk anywhere it was so small.

There was a road running along the west side of our lot. But the town of Frisco hadn’t put in the streets as they are today.

I had to chip cement off some of the tiles. But, oh well. You do what you have to do.

I stopped working the day I had my first child in October, 1954. Although after 20 years I went back to work, first part-time filling in for the other nurses, then full-time. I retired for...