Julia Braden 04/24/1963 – 11/6/2017 Ypsilanti Mi, a Massage Therapist in Ann Arbor, MI, died November 6th, 2017. She was born the eldest of 2 siblings in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies on April 24th 1963. Julia was certified a Massage Therapist In June 1994, and went to school in Florida for certification. She was attending Eastern Michigan University for a degree in Recreational Therapy and expected to graduate in 2019. She was married from 1988 to 2007 to Jon Braden and had no children. Growing up, she travelled with her father, and lived in England, Malaysia, Thailand, Denmark, and Africa. She also travelled to other countries with her father on vacations. She went to boarding school when she was 8 years old. She finished her high
Lana Lanetta was born and grew up in the quaint town of Ogre, Latvia. Coming from a blue-collar family, she marches to the beat of her own drum and has achieved the American dream and beyond. Don’t let her certification in gardening fool you, she is anything but a girly girl and She had no time to try to conform to anyone’s standards, early on she began to shape her own future, working her way up from a street janitor to becoming an adept artist. In her youth she was incredibly active, contributing to her amazing figure that she still maintains today, getting great aerobic workouts from soccer and gymnastics. Extracurricular activities aside, sewing has always been an enduring passion that has stayed near and dear to her heart. Despite her
One famous quote from Barbara Jordan is “If you’re going to play a game properly, you’d better know every rule .” Barbara Jordan was an amazing woman. She was the first African American Texas state senator. Jordan was also a debater, a public speaker, a lawyer, and a politician. Barbara Jordan was a woman who always wanted things to be better for African Americans and for all United States citizens. “When Barbara Jordan speaks,” said Congressman William L.Clay, “people hear a voice so powerful so, awesome...that it cannot be ignored and will not be silenced.”
Alice Cogswell was an incredible little girl from the 1800s who helped to change the course of history for deaf people everywhere. Alice was one of the first and most prominent figures in the creation of ASL as well as an education system for American deaf people. She became this brave pioneer at only 9 years old.
Andrea Yates was a will educated women by all means, “she was the class valedictorian, captain of the swim team and an officer in the National Honor Society. She completed a two-year pre-nursing program at the University of Houston and then graduated in 1986 from the University Of Texas School Of Nursing in Houston. She worked as a registered nurse at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1986 until 1994.” (Montaldo, n/a) Andrea met her husband, Rusty Yates at the apartment complex that she lived in. Andrea and Rusty after little time to together decided to get married in April of 1993. They seemed to be the perfect couple and started to have a family saying that, “they planned on having as many children as nature provided.” (Montaldo, n/a) In total the Yates had five wonderful children together, five boys and one girl ranging in ages from seven years old to seven months old.
Do you know who Sarah Thomas is? She is the NFL’s first female full time and most accomplished female referee. She was born in 1973 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. When she was in highschool she played basketball and softball. The officials never liked her because she would always try to make them change the call and she would disagree with them. It was the same when she went to the University of Mobile. She wanted to stay involved with sports after she graduated, so she joined a church basketball league for men.She played with them for two years until she was told she could no longer play.
At that time, Viola Desmond was the one of the only successful black canadian business woman and beautician in Halifax because there are were very few careers offered to the black. She Attended Bloomfield High school and also, studied in a program from Field Beauty Culture School, located in Montreal. These schools were one of the only academies that accepted black students. After she graduated, she promoted and sold her products because she wanted expanded her business;she also sold many of her products to her graduates. In addition, she opened a VI’s studio of beauty culture in Halifax.
She was born Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16, 1912, in Ely, Nev. (Biography). When Pat was 12, her mother died of cancer, at her senior year she found out that her father was dying of lung disease. (Fienberg pg. 23) "For the last two or three months I used to sit with her through the night," she later recalled. "We couldn't afford a night nurse and she needed attention.” Five years later her father, whom she was extremely close to, died of the miner's condition, silicosis. As his illness worsened, Pat had taken on the household and farm chores, also worked ...
Helen Gurley was born February 18, 1922 and died the August 13 of 2012. She was born in Green Forest, Arkansas, and was the daughter of Cleo Fred and Ira Marvin Gurley. Her father was once appointed Commissioner of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. In 1937, Gurley, her sister Mary Eloine,and their mother moved to Los Angeles, California. A few months after moving, Mary contracted polio. While in California, Brown attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High School. After Helen’s graduation, the family moved to Warm Springs, Georgia. She attended one semester at Texas State College for Women and then moved back to California to attend Woodbury Business College, from which she graduated in 1941. After working at the William Morris Agency, Music Corporation of America, and Jaffe talent agencies, Gurley worked for Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency as a secretary.
Lillia Davidson, my grandma was born mid war, 1940 to Shirley and Ed Kittle. Lillia, her 2 siblings and their parents lived in a small apartment in Glenbrook, Connecticut from 1940 to 1943, her family moved to the Vermont countryside when she was four. Her parents were not rich Shirley was a seamstress and Ed did was was called a civilian job meaning he did not get paid, he would keep an eye out for suspicious plains. Though her dad was not in the war she felt proud that he was helping with the war. Ed’s job of being a spotter become very important after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. My grandma has no memory of Pearl Harbor because she was so young. Being so young sheltered her from a lot of what was going on at that time.
Chicago and then moved to Grand Rapids when she was 2 years old. Her father
During her childhood, her father struggled with an alcohol addiction. This caused problems with their economic situation and part of the reason that Amelia and her sister had to keep moving and attend several different schools. She ended up graduating from Hyde Park High School in 1915 and continued her education at The Ogontz School for Young Ladies. She left Ogontz in the middle of her second year after visiting her sister and started work as a nurse’s aide at Toronto’s Spadina Military Hospital. She left her job and entered the pre-med program at Columbia ...
People are influenced by everything from jobs, music, fashion, certain people, even to different cultures. Chefs never seemed like the group of people one would expect to have an impact on the world, but they do. They change the way people see food and show that it is far more than just a way to stay alive it is sort of like a new way of life to say. There was one woman who changed the scene entirely, by graduating from the Parisian cooking school Le Cordon Bleu, publishing 19 books, airing 13 television shows, and having 8 DVD releases. Julia Child has been an inspiration for many cooks but has also influenced society as a whole while changing the way people thought about food and at the same time, revolutionizing the professional cooking industry for women.
When she went into surgery in St. John’s Medical Center in St. Louis, we were all there and confidant that everything would go as planned. The doctors came out about one hour into the surgery to inform us that the damage was much worse than they initially thought. They told us that they would keep us updated on her progress. Two hours later they came out to tell us that her heart stopped beating and they tried everything they could to revive her, but she had died.
Chrissy Ethridge achieved many goals in her lifetime. She changed the lives of everyone she met. She was born March 7, 1997 in Carthage, Tennessee. She was a faithful friend, daughter, mother, and grandmother. She received her Associate’s degree at Volunteer State Community College. She then went on to receive her Bachelor’s degree at Tennessee Tech University. She finally obtained her Masters degree from Vanderbilt University. Shortly after graduated, Chrissy, alongside her best friend, built a special needs school in Lafayette, Tennessee. She taught the preschool age group. Chrissy made a huge impact on every one of her students. She built an amazing career! A career she loved!
I miss her and I’ll miss her always. My aunt, Catherine passed away on Christmas 1997, and it was the biggest chock for my whole family and me. I was living in Syria at that time and my parents flew to Switzerland for the funeral.