She is a retired teacher and, in her own words, "a struggling flutist." She worked as a live-in maid as a college student and learned what life was like outside Kapoho. She learned to set a table with silverware instead of red chopsticks as in Kapoho. She still has dreams of Kapoho as it was before Madame Pele's visit. Frances currently lives in Honolulu. The dessert she's holding at her birthday dinner at "A Pacific Caf?" is named Pele's Comet.