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Kuth Orange continued as “postmistress" while Misty attended public school in the county. She graduated from Rappahannock high school in 1961 and worked on the family farm until she was 22 years old.
In November 1966. Misty started delivering mail as a contractor, as Woodville had stopped being an official post office in 1966 and was a contract station.
“There weren't that many jobs available in Rappahnnnock Countv when 1 started," she recalled. “My grandmother became very ill and t needed a job close to home. It was convenient."
Everyone, including the postmaster, worked as an independent contractor. They did not receive any benefits. She delivered about two feet of mail per day. There were no mail cases to sort mail. Her mail was sorted on table's and shelves.
“My route was 60 miles every day with commuting, and never more than 10 miles away from home," Misty recalled, explaining that a postal route often travels in a circular pattern around a town with some retracing of tracks.
“My first truck was a 2wheel drive. My next two were 4-wheel drives. They were all Eord Rangers. All of them went over 200,000 miles"
One of the difficulties of Misty’s contracted mute was that she could never get time off, she said.
"It was very hart! to find sulwtitutes," she said. “My only time off was on Sundays
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