I was born in Charleston, SC, but we moved to Baxter, TN when I was three years old. I grew up in Baxter and attended eight year at Baxter Elementary School and then four at Upperman High School. After high school I attended Tennessee Technological University for two years majoring in Home Economics Education. I met the love of my life at Tech and left school to join the Air Force with him. We married at Lackland Air Force Base, in Texas at the end of basic training. We spent the next nine years serving our country. What a wonderful time we had. We had two children and left the Air Force when I was faced with an overseas assignment that would not allow my husband or children to go with me. As it was time to reenlist or separate we both did the later and returned to Tennessee to his home town of Crossville. We lived there for almost 40 years. Only due to my husband cancer did we go to Knoxville, TN to stay through his hospice time with our younger child and his family. Ed passed away on 24 May 2018. My son insisted that I stay with them due to my health and I have been here ever since enjoying my son, his wife and two adorable grandchildren.

I was born in Charleston, SC, but we moved to Baxter, TN when I was three years old. I grew up in Baxter and attended eight year at Baxter Elementary School and then four at Upperman High School. After high school I attended Tennessee Technological University for two years majoring in Home Economics Education. I met the love of my life at Tech and left school to join the Air Force with him. We married at Lackland Air Force Base, in Texas at the end of basic training. We spent the next nine years serving our country. What a wonderful time we had. We had two children and left the Air Force when I was faced with an overseas assignment that would not allow my husband or children to go with me. As it was time to reenlist or separate we both did the later and returned to Tennessee to his home town of Crossville. We lived there for almost 40 years. Only due to my husband cancer did we go to Knoxville, TN to stay through his hospice time with our younger child and his family. Ed passed away on 24 May 2018. My son insisted that I stay with them due to my health and I have been here ever since enjoying my son, his wife and two adorable grandchildren.