I was born in northern Arizona, in a Navajo Indian hospital.  My father managed a trading post selling and trading Navajo and Hopi Indian made goods.  For a long time I thought I was Navajo.  At the beginning of WWII and the opening of the Corpus Christi Navel Base my dad started a business in Corpus Christi and moved the family.  II wanted to continue to study art in college and attended the Kansas City Art Institute.  For seventeen years I worked as a fashion illustrator for newspaper advertising but my  fine art career was detoured by marriage and family duties.  After retiring from a career in education I poured myself into my art.