I met Tom, my husband, back in ’81, and he already had this piece of property out here, and I came out here right away. I was a social worker in long-term care in Tacoma, and here would come these elders from the Key Peninsula, or I would meet people who had been living in one of those places but had grown up out here and lived out here. I could relate to their sorrow over ending up in town after a life lived in this community.

Then people started hearing about my profession and would call me looking for answers to their concerns about aging, resources, that kind of thing.