The examining room at the Cabin Creek Health Center is familiar ground for licensed practical nurse Becky Williams. A pillar of the clinic, she started working there 37 years ago when the center started in a nearby school. She worked at Charleston General for eight years before that.

"I've known these people for years. ...

... They are like my family. ...

... I never wore my nametag. Everybody knew me."

At age 2, Becky Williams went to live with her grandparents following the divorce of her parents.

Future nurse Becky Williams was a majorette at Chelyan Junior High School.

In 1959, Becky Williams was a senior at East Bank High School. At 17, she dropped out for a semester to have a baby and returned to earn her diploma the next year.

In her early years at the clinic, Becky Williams was photographed with Norris Light, a past president of the health center board who helped get the center off the ground.

Gazette photo by LAWRENCE PIERCE.......'BWILLIAMS1'.......8x5.41.......Becky Williams.......INNERVIEWS.......8/28/12.......