She grew up in the Country on a Farm. It was eight miles to the nearest Town. On a Week Day usually on a Thursday was Their regular trip to town to stock up on Supplies. Most of theirFood was Home Grown and/or Canned for Winter use, and She went to Simcoe Elementry and walked for 6 years, rode a School Bus for 6 years to Fairview High School and Graduated in 1966.
She learned to cook at the age of 12 and was taught to sew by her Mother. She belonged to 4 H Club and won several Ribbons. She learned to play the Piano by Shape notes and filled in for the Regular Pianist in her absence. She wanted to be a Model when she finished High School but her Parents could not afford for her to go, she also like Drawing Pictures and entered a contest that had a Picture of a Young Girl and she did it Free Hand and hit it spot on, She won a $500. 00 Scholarship to the School, but again her Parents couldn't afford to send her. She did manage to go to a Trade School and became a Hairdresser and won first Place in a Hair Style Contest and got her Picture in the Local Newspaper along with the Second and Third Place Winners. , It was a create your own Hair Style . She then went to a Business School, and enrolled with a Community College, and went to several different Community Colleges and took Medical Coding classes, Anatomy and Other Medical Studies. She grew up very shy and when she was a Young Child she earned the Nick Name of Squealer. She got Married at the age of 19, and lived in the same Home for 19 years, She and her Husband had 2 sons and they moved a lot with his work. She has been to all of the lower 48 States and add Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa.