I'm a Floridian by birth. I'm the daughter of two educators (now deceased) and was reared in a Christian home. After forty-four years of marriage, I became a widow.I birthed four children during that marriage. Today, my family consists of six adult children, eight grandchildren and two great grand-children.

I was an educator in the public schools of Newburgh, New York for thirty-three years. My God-given gift of teaching was used in teaching Bible classes to children in Chester, New York, and later to adults in the United Methodist Church in Newburgh, New York. More recently I was one of the Adult Bible Study teachers at the Freedom Center Church, Missouri City, Texas.