
WHY THE OYSTERMAN'S DAUGHTER? Many years ago, even before Sue was born, her father owned and operated the oyster beds in Drayton Harbor. It was a successful enterprise, with the oyster seeds being purchased from Japan. World War II meant the end of the oyster seeds and the business.
The family always was a part of the seafood industry; father and brothers as commercial salmon and dungeness crab fishermen; the entire family at various times working for the Alaska Packers Association (now the site of the Resort Semiahmoo); everyone participating in clam digging and oyster picking.