Elsie Wilkins:  

I was married on 3-23-65, I had to go through the school broad to graduate, my 1st husband Waverly had volunteer for the draft, after the sermon I took off on drove to Fort Jackson SC, I used 86 cans of oil in that old auto I had, after his basic training I move to Berkeley, CA, I was going to Seoul Korea, when a ship was hit and all the American had to go back to the united states, I left California and moved back to Chesapeake, while waiting I enrolled in data processing at what is now called tidewater comm. tech. college, I left my hometown and moved to the Bronx, in New York then to Mount Vernor, NY for 6 years I was in the Post Office, Wakefield Station where I was in charge within 250 miles of any direction of people that had moved,, my children was not safe in that city all over I was finding the best was dangerous, I then moved to Northern Va. Dale city, Woodbridge area, where I did numerous of job's including 911 operator, consumer affairs secretary to the director, where I handle Landlord tenants complaints, Northern Va. Community College, secretary science I had suffered with so many asthma attacks , and moving, I was ready to call it quits until I was referral to people with disabilities in between this time I had moved to East Orange New Jersey, then Newark, New Jersey, still the paramedics was called in and out of my home, then back to northern Va. again this time. This time the phone company I was at was closing down and I was told that Quantico Marine Corp Base needed people with disabilities, I had just earned a degree from Howard University this was in 1988, which I did not need only my disability was enough and a another area I look into was real estate broker this came from Jamestown community college, my son Trent had purchased 55 homes in the High Point NC before he was 30 years old with a master degree in indus. Engineer, while my other son did 14 years in the navy and 15 years in the air...Expand for more