"Snow and more snow! Willis J (Bill) Taylor and I were married in 1946 and in 1948 we came to live in Headquarters. When my son, Gary and I rode into town on the bus, coming down the hill, here were all these houses arranged in a circle-some sight. Housing was hard to come by, so ours was one of many made by the Company from converted boxcars. Our house was no. 11 on the row of 12 on the flats. It was our home for 14 1/2 years.
In 1949 I started working at the cookhouse, that is what we called Marsh's Restaurant. I worked for Ben Marsh and his wife Marcella. It was nice when we had a full crew, but harder at slack time because we still had to do everything but with less help.
Collen Ross and I lived next door to each other and I remember us walking home from work in the evenings, talking, and seeing the moon and stars overhead.
The persons who helped me share those memories were my husband, Bill; a man who was liked by everyone, and my son Gary Parkerson, who grew up and worked there too.
In January 1962, we moved to Lewiston."
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