After the birth of our son Doug, my husband Hank was transferred to Southeast Asia and I returned to Connecticut to stay with my mom. I worked again at Yale-New Haven, this time as a P.R.N. nurse for almost a year.

At this time I took an 8 year hiatus to raise our children, Doug, Susan and Deborah. My next position was a nursing home in Anchorage, Alaska for three years.

Hank was tranferred again, this time to Valdosta Georgia where I held positions at two Nursing Homes where I discovered that my calling in life was Geriatric Medicine.

We were then reassigned to Belleville, Illinois where I continued working in Geriatric Nursing for a year and a half. Hank retired from the Air Force and we moved to Maine.