Interview with Florence Naccarato, born Dec. 16, 1922 and died July 16, 2011. Her early years were spent learning the piano, studying art and dress design. She was an excellent swimmer and outstanding Badminton player. She attended the University of Washington until World War II. To support the war effort, Florence took a position as a parachute packer in Great Falls, Montana where she met and married Lloyd Naccarato of Salida, Colorado. After the...

This narrative is taken from In Colorado's Gold Fields: The World's Most Famous Gold Camps, ca. 1899 by W.C. Calhoun, Denver, Colorado. Pub. 1900, The Quarterly Sentinel, V. 4, No. 1, January 1900, p. 63-65. This statement is part of the Thomas A. Nevens Papers.