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KP: So you graduated from high school?

MS: Yes.

KP: From which school?

MS: Sacramento Senior High School. And then I went to Berkeley for a year and then I came back and I started to work.

KP: What did you do? What kind of work?

MS: Oh, I worked for the state of California, entry level, as a office clerk. And then I was going to... I did go to City College and Sac State at different times, at night and took some day classes too, but mostly at night.

KP: When did you meet your husband?

MS: Oh, I met him in 1954. His family is from Hawaii too but his family were Isseis, and so he was Nisei, he was in the air force and stationed at Beale Air Force Base, north of here. There were quite a few of them and they would come to Sacramento on weekends to see what's happening here. So, and then we got married in 1955 and then I moved to San Bernardino where he was stationed there. And then my children were born there.

KP: How long was he in the military?

MS: He retired from the military. So his ashes are at Punch Bowl. We did have a service there.

KP: Any questions come up, Richard?

RP: Yeah, a few more questions, Margaret. Do you remember what your stepdad did for the railroad?

MS: No, I don't. And then later he was like a farm laborer and then they would go from place to place for the different crops. So he wasn't always with us because he was working at different places.

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