It was partly because she loves children that Rhead (pronounced “red”) ended up in Seattle. Also, she wanted to help her sister out. At times when her sister got in trouble with the law, Rhead would leave her job in Sacramento and travel north to take care of her sister’s kids.
“My passion is children,” she said.
Rhead, who was a foster mother in California, especially likes younger children: “Babies until about five or six. If there was somebody who needed emergency care that was older, I wouldn’t turn them down.” ...