Jennifer Daggett:  

I was born in Portland and attended Hosford Grade School before attending Cleveland. After high school I worked for a short time before getting married in 1968, My husband was in the Army so we moved around. We lived in Colorado Springs, West Berlin, Germany and Lawton, Oklahoma. I have 2 children (now aged 48 and 45) and 7 grandchildren (ages 30 to 17 years). My husband and I separated in 1974 divorcing in 1979. I have not remarried. I went back to school (PCC) in 1975 and graduated in 1977 with an Associates Degree in Accounting. From 1983 to 2002 I worked at Meier & Frank both in their Traffic department and Purchasing department. In 2002 all the corporate jobs were moved to southern California and 600 of us lost our jobs My one grandson lived with me for 18 months and I was his sole care giver. He was 9 years old when he came to live with me and almost 11 when he left. After that I did odd jobs (house sitting,etc) to make ends meet. In July 2008, after 6 years of unemployment, I started working part time at Independent Living Resources.. In 2011 I started working full time as the office manager. I Retired fro...Expand for more