Sheila Hingerty:  

My life story......I am the female carbon unit formerly known as Sheila Ann Phillips........Okay....so I'm going to try and write something to tell the "story of me"....thus far.... Let's see, first of all, don't laugh at all my AKA's (also known as) as I write this. My picture really doesn't belong in the Post Office...LOL. I was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1952 and went to Tillinghurst Elementary School in Columbus from 1957 through 1964. I went to Eddy Jr. High from 1964 through 1966 and spent my high school freshman year at Hardaway High in Columbus, and transferred to Eastside High in 1967, which later became Kendrick High. I graduated from Kendrick with the first graduating class from there, in 1970 and started working for the Pepsi Cola/7Up Bottling plant in Columbus as a receptionist and bookkeeper, soon thereafter. I got the job through our neighbor across the street growing up, Mr. Wilkerson, who worked there. In 1971, I married Tommy Harris, who may be known to some of you as Chris Brannon the radio personality from WDAK AM Radio in Columbus. So, I became Sheila Phillips Harris and sometimes was known as Sheila Brannon, as well. I left Pepsi in 1973, and went back to school at Meadows College of Business to get into the computer field. Seems, I hated accounting work....seems like housework, you no sooner get it done and you have to start all over. After finishing at Meadows College in 1975, I started work at Columbus Packaging in Columbus working in my first data processing job. (That's what they called IT back in the old days.) Soon I was the Data Processing Manager there and worked there until 1981. I went to work in 1981 in LaGrange, GA at Rossmark Products as their Data Processing Manager. They were once a Rubbermaid company that was sold to a private individual. I still lived in Columbus and commuted to LaGrange every day. Rossmark was plagued with financial problems so I left Rossmark in 1982 and went to work at Lummus Industries, back in Columbus as a programmer and then was promoted to their Data Processing Manager. In 1981, before I left Columbus Packaging, my first husband, Tommy and I divorced and I ran into an old classmate from my freshman year at Hardaway High, Walter Holland. Walter and I dated for a few months, bought a house together in Murray Hills in Columbus, lived together, and then married in 1982 while I was still working at Rossmark in LaGrange, so I became Sheila Phillips Holland. We got married at the Chapel at Callaway Gardens all us girls dreamed about growing up. Even so, things just didn't work out with that marriage, so we divorced in 1983. In early, 1984 the Finance Manager from Lummus where I worked, took a job in Orlando Florida at Control Laser Corporation, and he lured me to Florida to work for him. I relocated to Orlando, Florida and took the job at Control Laser in 1984 as their MIS Manager until 1988. In 1984, when I moved to Florida I met and began dating the man who was to become my third husband. William G. Rose. Bill was 11 years younger than me, so I thought.....Expand for more