My mother had worked her way through nursing school in
Minot North Dakota.
My father left the farm and figured out how
to earn his way through college by working and
living at Univ. of North Dakota at Camp Depression.
They got married and my father was working as a social
worker in a pretty depressed area in North Dakota
and in 1941 they had my older brother.
In early 1942 for several reasons (economic improvement
and to work in defense industry) they moved to Seattle
area. My dad earned more as a laborer at Lake Washington
Shipyards then he had been earning. My mother also
started working at shipyard, first as a messenger,
then as a RN in the shipyard infirmary.

My dad had 2 sisters, who also moved to Puget Sound from
North Dakota.
One did ? (records/paperwork) in Spokane.
When the youngest finished HS in 1944 she left the
Dakotas to also go to Lake Washington area, then
she started work at Boeing. Neither married.

My mom's older sister was married, she worked in
Seattle at Boeing.