Thank you very much for the information and how to contact your mom. I'll do that. Contacting Adalaide and her children might provide some information about her parents, Anna Hepting & George Casteel.
I live in the south-east area of Washington (the Tri-Cities), about 4 hours from Seattle. We have blue sky here too =) ... not the wet, overcast weather. Our house is a few blocks from the Columbia River, in Richland.
Priscilla