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DG: And your father never came back here. He stayed in Seattle.

RM: Yeah. My cousin and myself and Min, Min Tsubota.

DG: And so then you sold the Eagle Company.

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: And part of the agreement was what? For you to stay on as...

RM: Oh, yeah. Then they wanted me to put in a contract that I stay on for so many years to manage that end of it, yeah.

DG: So did you stay in Nahcotta to do that?

RM: Yeah.

DG: Okay. So then that's where your other girls were born, and you raised your family in Nahcotta.

RM: Yeah, they were raised in Nahcotta, yeah.

DG: Okay. So because you came back in Nahcotta in 1946 or '47.

RM: Yeah.

DG: And then you didn't move here to South Bend until 1960 or so.

RM: Yeah.

DG: So your family was mostly raised there.

RM: Yeah.

DG: And you managed the Eagle. Did the name stay the same?

RM: Yeah.

DG: Eagle Oyster Company.

RM: Eagle Oyster Packing Company.

DG: So during that time, did you increase the business and develop it more?

RM: During what period?

DG: When you managed it.

RM: Oh, after we came back?

DG: Uh-huh.

RM: No, I don't think it increased it any, but I think we stayed about the same.

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