Sharry Elizabeth Hebert Biography

My mother, a housekeeper at a Best Western Hotel, has been recognized for her exceptional commitment, leadership, and organizational skills for maintaining a clean and hospital environment in collaboration with her colleagues. She is from the countryside of a small town in Mexico called San Juan de Los Lagos, Jalisco, a beautiful place known for its rich history and architecture. At an early age my mother lost her father during a storm in Mexico. The loss of my grandfather was devastating for he left behind a widow, a new born, and a total of 8 children. The hardship caused several of the older children to leave school and start working to support the family. My mother however, managed to remain in school but with time, the teachers that would go out to the country to teach the children stopped coming and my mother was forced to resign her education. With school no longer an option my mother began working due to the lack of resources. At this point she was only able to obtain an education up to the 6th

Although jobs had been scarce, I had been lucky enough to acquire a job in a Steel mill in the industrial area of Tulsa. Many people were against working there due to the conditions in which we were forced to deal with. Rats littered the building, some open, upper floor areas had no railings, and the machines would occasionally get themselves stuck on something. I reluctantly was able to convince my boss to allow my father to work with me. The job had been very dangerous and hard, but I made just enough money to provide for my family. The difficult work and hazardous conditions, while not preferable, enabled us to stay

My grandma was a mother of three. She had my Aunt heather, Aunt Angie, and my mother. She raised my mother and Heather while going to college, which is a fight on its own, but to make it more difficult, she had hodgkins and had spent over an entire year fighting it in Iowa’s childrens hospital and held victory her senior year.. The chances of surviving hodgkins in the 60’s was around 75% and wasn’t the end for my Grandma, she lived to fight another day. Moving on in her life,She spent most of her time studying, she graduated high school on the top of her class, then going to college of hamilton for business. During that time, she had my mom and my Aunt Heather on the way.

Doris is my great-great aunt born on November 25, 1917, in Salina, Kansas. Nowadays if someone is born anywhere other than a hospital it is weird, but then it was not. Doris was born in her house. She lived in a 2-story house with a “big room”, also known as a living room, on the main floor and one bedroom upstairs. Doris’s family consisted of 5 people altogether: Mom, Hilma; Dad, Carl; 2 brothers (LeRoy, they also called him Sandy, and Lauren), and Doris. Doris was the youngest by eleven years. She lived in Salina during the Dust Bowl, she was 12 years old when the first storm hit.

My grandmother’s father, my great-grandpa, left the family when she was six years old. They had since moved to Detroit and

They arrived in Kennewick from the gracious sponsorship of a local Catholic Church, helping fleeing Vietnamese citizens come to America during the height of the Vietnam War. My grandparents now faced a new plethora of obstacles aside from just abandoning all their belongings, property, and possessions some 7,000 miles away back home in South East Asia. With no college degree, higher level education, and five growing kids in the family, they took long, backbreaking jobs in order to make ends meet for decades. My grandfather took most of his savings out and was able to buy a small home and an even smaller appliance store. He worked repairing various types of appliances from drying machines, washing machines, and refrigerators for 18 hours a day, every day. On the other hand, my grandmother found a job as a electronic chip manufacturer, working long hours on an assembly line. Working low level jobs until retirement, they adopted an extremely frugal lifestyle, which I have admired and taught me discipline and a sense of gratefulness for all the luxuries I have living in

It all began in the 1850’s, with my great-great-great grandmother Molly. She was a run away slave from Arkansas, who fled to Marshall, Texas. My family started a life in Longview, Texas and owned land and a farm. Their Land was passed down generations and my great- grandmother Carrietta Bowens in herniated it, which is where my 87 year old grandmother, Ruby Griffin was born and raised. But in 1937, when my grandmother was 8 years old, her great uncle was chased by the Ku Klux Klan and was able to make it to Blythe, California, where a white man helped him get into military and that is how we migrated to California. In 1931, my great-grandmother and grandmother moved to Blythe, California, looking for better housing and education system for

My grandmother’s parents immigrated to Johnstown, Pennsylvania from a small town in Poland close to Warsaw. As a young child she spoke two languages Polish at home and English when she went to school or with friends. Life started out very difficult and never really got any easier.. Her life continued to get worse when she lost her husband in a mining accident and her eldest son to a car accident. My grandma used to tell me the stories of their deaths, and how it taught her how strong she really is. She turned the hardships in her life into something beautiful, something joyous, and something sentimental. These moments shaped her into who she is, but they do not define her. These moments that she shares allow me to move on and find something joyful about every situation even if they are not be ideal. When my grandfather passed away my grandmother gave me the strength to look on the brighter side of the situation instead of the sad side.

My grandparents had three daughters, one son, and one adopted son. The adopted son is named Peter and he my uncle in Santa Ana. The oldest son is named Vongpat and he works at Leprino food. The youngest daughter is named Vongthong. She is the person who likes fashion very much and I know this because she wears a lot of high fashion brands like Louis Vuitton and others. The oldest daughter is named Vongdevane and she has a disability that makes her unable to speak. The second oldest daughter would be my mother name Vongseng and she is right now taking care of the family and supporting me in school. When my grandparent just started to live in the United States, they worked in a factory that paid minimum wage, which was about three dollars and fifty cents per hour. Now my grandparents are free from the welfare system, they now live a normal life after working hard in their

The modern day world is much different than it used to be one hundred years ago. Conditions now are very different from those of the past, such as how people communicate, dress, and live their daily lives. My grandmother, Linda, agreed to sit down with me and explain the changes and historic events she experienced throughout her lifetime. Her full name is Linda Marie Batye, and she was born on April 26th, 1947, making her sixty-nine years of age. Although she is retired, Linda was an executive assistant at South County Bank in Boone County. After divorcing my grandfather before I was born, she now resides in Columbia with her dog, Squirt. After asking her many questions, I began to weave historic events and her life together.

Getting to interview my Mammam has given me a different look on how she lived as kid. For social studies this year I got to interview my Mammam and learning about her town and how she grew up was so interesting. My grandma, Maureen, grew up in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania in a middleclass family. She had eight kids in her family including herself, and this affected how she grew up because the older kids had to help the younger kids. Everyone had to chip in. It’s the same today because I’m the youngest in my family and my older siblings help me all the time. Mount Carmel was a small town with a population of 5,000 people, so everyone knew everyone in her town. She lived close to family too. It affected her life because she was always surrounded by family. She had aunts and uncles that lived just down the street from her.

At a young age, my Grandma had the poorest living conditions. Brought here from Okinawa, Japan, she lived in very poor housing with poor schools. She could not attend school until the age of 7 because she was not able to speak English very fluently. She moved out as soon as she could because she was abused by her father. She quickly married and had 4 kids. Upon disclosure that her husband was abusive to her children, she left him fueled with memories of her childhood. She then was a single mother with 4 kids. My Grandma then had to learn what it took to be grown up.

Gertrude Glessner was born on May 9, 1927 in Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, She grew up with good parents and a very happy life. One of her favorites memories was having a kennel of dogs that she took care of all the time. She would go to the woods and teach them to hunt for small animals as a puppy then after they get bigger they hunt for bigger animal. Gertrude smiled when she was telling me about her memories. When Gertrude was a teen she went to college then went right into Nursing for 20 years and she loved her job. She was married for 37 years and met him in high school. She had 4 children that she loves very much. One highlight she had was when she was good as a child as could be. Another highlight was going to Arizona to Mexico.

In our time period now, Hedy Lamarr helped build the foundation of some most revolutionary technology; she made great contributions to human culture. There is a website which describes a basic background of that time period, According to the article hedylamarr.org which said that after the World War II, Hedy Lamarr who wanted to make a greater contribution to the design of the control of torpedoes. Because radio control guidance system is too vulnerable to be damaged, so it is never be produced at that time.

I went into heritage health expecting to interview a senior citizen, instead I found someone who reminds me very much of myself. Her name is Dorothy and she was originally from Morris IL. She moved down to Jacksonville to be closer to her family. She grew up in the town of Morris and always thought she would live the life of a farmer. She met her husband in high school and said that her fondest memory was when she thinks back on her wedding day. His family was so caring and they accepted her into the family with open arms. Her family loved him as well and she would joke around with her husband about how her mother always liked him more than her! The country life snuck up on her and she loved every minute of it. After graduation from high school