Profile: Batavia's Barb Toal, first female master plumber in New York
In the 60s, every girl in high school would have been encouraged by her guidance counselor to be a nurse, teacher, secretary, or homemaker. Barbara, a girl born in 1948, did not like those choices in high school. She wanted to be a plumber like her dad. Her father, Dwight, began his plumbing business at their home on South Main two years before Barb was born. On her ninth
Source: thebatavian.com