I grew up in McComb, Ohio on a farm.  McComb had a school house that blew down and all the classes were held in upstairs rooms in McComb, and then they decided to build a new school building in 1923. Since my mother had been a country school teacher she made me stay until I was seven years old and started in this new building that’s still here in McComb.

It was a consolidated school and I did pretty well as a student. I graduated third in my class and we lived on a farm and I helped with the farm work.

After I graduated high school, I entered nurses training at Lucas County Hospital School of Nursing.  I graduated there at the top of my class and then I worked for Dr. Miller in McComb for a short time and then I was pregnant and I stopped working until all of my children were in school.  Then I started to do private duty nursing and for 13 years I took care of one man.