KAREN: Now we're back and we're gonna start a little bit over again because I didn't have the recorder turned on right. So, you had told me before about when you came down to Sitka.

AGNES: The first --

KAREN: The first time.

AGNES: In '52. I went down there to the hospital for tuberculosis and I was there for about a year. Then I lived in Sitka, went to school there, went through high school and went to PN training.

KAREN: And had you thought about being a nurse before that?

AGNES: No, there was just a -- someone had mentioned that there was a PN class starting that May, so I went to PN training. The training lasted a year, so --

KAREN: So, what year was that?

AGNES: That was 1958.

KAREN: Okay.

AGNES: And it was over in '59. I went to work at Mt. Edgecumbe hospital. Then I quit in '61, moved up here.

KAREN: And why did you decide to move to Yakutat?

AGNES: I got married to somebody from here. I told you it wouldn't be the same answers.

KAREN: No, it's not. That's why it's kind of good.

AGNES: I left a lot out.

KAREN: Oh. So, your husband is George Valle and how did you meet him?

AGNES: I knew him when him and his wife lived here and they had been divorced. I used to be afraid of him, he sounded so mean.

Then I divorced my first husband and, I don't know, we just got together. We've been married for what, going on 35 years?

KAREN: Wow. That's great. And you had come to visit Yakutat before?

AGNES: In '57.

KAREN: In '57. Did you meet him then?

AGNES: No.

KAREN: No?

AGNES: Uh-hum (negative). This was in '61.

KAREN: Oh. Nice. So, how did you start doing health aide kind of work?

AGNES: When I moved up here in '61, there was some elderly patients that were at Mt. Edgecumbe hospital. And they remembered me from there and they talked to me for their problems. And then we told Mt. Edgecumbe or write letters and then they'd write back and say what to give them if we had it. If they didn't, they'd send the medicine. But usually they did come back with their own medication from the hospital.

KAREN: Did you always have to send patients to the hospital or could you treat some of them here?

AGNES: We could treat some of them here if we had the medication or --

KAREN: -- or the doctor would send the medicine up or something?

AGNES: Hm, mm (affirmative).