Debbie Barger:  

Okay, I guess I'm gonna tell all. I left Yakima in August of 1970 to go to school in Tulsa Oklahoma. Loved the people I met who are life long friends. Worked through college in a Nursing home, Restaurants, Pubs, and a Children's Medical Center. Right after I turned 21, my Mom died. I moved to Indiana, lived with my sister for a 6 months and worked as a bookkeeper for WT Grant. Back to Yakima and Tulsa until I graduated in 1975 from U. of Tulsa with a degree in Sociology/minor in Psychology. Back to Yakima I came. Worked as a social worker there, met and married a West Valley boy, Stephen Smith. Love him to this day and we've been married 33 years. We moved to Westport in 1976, then Aberdeen in 1981. He was in education, I was a County Social Services planner for a year, then was hired as the director of a Non-Profit organization providing training and employment as well as community placement services to developmentally disabled adults in the Aberdeen area. We moved up to Snohomish County (Marysville) in 1989 for Stephen's admin...Expand for more