Claude Klaver talks about his personal background, growing up on a farm in Iowa, speaking Low German as a child, working on the family farm after graduation from high school, serving in the Army during the occupation of Japan, deciding to become a minister, attending the University of Dubuque, Iowa, competing his Masters of Divinity in 1953, meeting his wife at Dubuque and marrying in 1950, their children, wanting to serve in Japan, taking a temporary position in central Missouri, deciding to come to Yakutat, Alaska, life in Yakutat, a close encounter with a whale, moving to Wasilla, his responsibility for the area along what would become the Parks Highway, moving to Wisconsin and Illinois when it was time for his children to attend high school, moving back to Alaska to start a Presbyterian Methodist Church in North Pole in 1977, volunteering as the chaplain at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, taking a position as the director of the Fairbanks Food Bank, the death of his first wife, Joan, having to move the location of the food bank in January, marrying Joanne Tillsworth, retiring from his position at the food bank, becoming a part-time volunteer chaplain at the Denali Center and the Pioneers Home, working with Bingle Camp and Knox Retreat Center at Harding Lake, travel around the country and internationally, moving to Raven Landing in 2017, and enjoying raising a family.