Densho Digital Archive
Watsonville - Santa Cruz JACL Collection
Title: Nancy Iwami Interview
Narrator: Nancy Iwami
Interviewer: Megan Asaka
Location: Watsonville, California
Date: July 29, 2008
Densho ID: denshovh-inancy-01-0022

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MA: So you have a daughter?

NI: I have a daughter, yeah, she is in Reno.

MA: And when was she born?

NI: She was born in, was she born in... she's fifty-five, so was she born in '63 or is it...

MA: '53.

NI: '53.

MA: And what's her name?

NI: Nancy Jean Mattson. She married a Swedish boy from Minnesota, (...) Mattson. And she is an RN. First she went to UC Santa Barbara, and then she went to Reno, then she got her nurse's, and she got married. She has two children.

MA: I wanted to ask you about your parents, your mother and father, what they did right after the war. Did they go back into farming...

NI: No.

MA: ...or did they retire?

NI: They helped my brother while they were able, (...) and then they retired because to, when you have a large ranch, you might as well have the laborers do it. And so they retired.

MA: And when your brothers retired, did they sell the land or did their kids take it over?

NI: Uh-huh. I think he sold one piece.

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