Nonetheless, she was introduced to bunkhouse living, and eventually settled into a house in Seneca which the company built for them. She was the proud recipient of a 30-30 rifle for Mother's Day one year, and with it killed antelope, deer and elk. Belle Fuller and I went to Ukiah to go hunting once. We left camp late every morning. Even with that I got everyone to their stands, and 11 elk were taken.
Belle lives in Idaho now, but they still talk on the phone.
In 1956 she and Virgil moved to Long Creek. His health deteriorating, Flo cared for him until his death in 1979. She had taken up huckleberrying near Mt. Adams upon moving to Long Creek. And she continued yearly for 37 seasons. She and her girlfriends would hitch up the trailer, stack the buckets in the back and hit the road.