The early years of her life taught her that nothing in life meant more than family and community and nurturing both brought her great joy and satisfaction. She took great enjoyment in supporting her children's high school sports teams holding what would become legendary "crab feeds" to fund camps, travel, uniforms. The crab feeds would go on to fund community projects for the water district and fire hall. Both sons and daughter would go on to play on state championship basketball teams which she was very proud of. In her later years her interest in sports grew to include the Gonzaga men and women's basketball teams and the Seattle Mariners. Go Ichiro! She truly loved the town of Curlew. She gave its water district the land for its water source so it would always have clean water and gave the fire district land for a new station. The land was sold and a health clinic built there instead but other land was purchased with the money and a new station was eventually built.