My Sister, Bertha - Goodley-Campbell, Clarice
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My Sister, Bertha is a biography of a girl who was born in 1933 in a small country town in Southwest Louisiana. It was during the Great Depression, 1929-1941 and just before the onset of World War II, 1939-1945. Although this book is not about the Great Depression or World War II, these affected the general welfare of families, as did, the Jim Crow Laws. Therefore, life was not easy and quite challenging for a family of ten children. Bertha was number four of the ten and stuck between five boys. Everyone seemed to depend on her to do many things, although she was sick a lot of the time. Living…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
My Sister, Bertha is a biography of a girl who was born in 1933 in a small country town in Southwest Louisiana. It was during the Great Depression, 1929-1941 and just before the onset of World War II, 1939-1945. Although this book is not about the Great Depression or World War II, these affected the general welfare of families, as did, the Jim Crow Laws. Therefore, life was not easy and quite challenging for a family of ten children. Bertha was number four of the ten and stuck between five boys. Everyone seemed to depend on her to do many things, although she was sick a lot of the time. Living next door to grandparents added to her list of responsibilities, but being a very obedient child and never rebellious, Bertha continued with her many chores, day in and day out.
Autorenporträt
Clarice Goodley-Campbell is a retired educator who served in many capacities in her field as teacher, administrator, and counselor. In addition, she belongs to many organizations in her church and loves to volunteer with the elders in nursing homes and other facilities.She is married Al and has one daughter, Cheryl. Her hobbies are reading, traveling and working on crossword puzzles.Being a cancer survivor for twenty-five years, she holds a Breast Cancer Awareness event at her church every year to remind everyone, women and men, that the key to cancer survivor is early detection.Clarice has written a memoire of herself entitled, Looking Back, which was published ten years ago.