Sissy Dobbs:  

Life I have updated my profile. My original story was directed towards informing my old classmates what I have been up to since high school. But, I have collected several new friends, and therefore, decided that I should put the whole scoop. I was born in Okinawa, Japan, as the third child, but first daughter to Lonnie and Moira Graves. We were an Air Force family, my mother being British. My siblings were born in France, Germany and the U.S. My brothers and I explored the world and discovered the unique beauty of foreign lands as children. We became rich in experience and held an esteemed appreciation for the good old United States of America. There's no place like home. As an infant, I burned my hands, and spent a great deal of time having my hands rebuilt by the best burn doctors in the world at Brooke Army Burn Center at Fort Sam Houston Army Base in San Antonio. The doctors did an incredible job using state of the art (for the time) skin grafting techniques. Enduring this lengthy traumatic experience gave me a real joy and passion for life, realizing that everything as we know it, can change in the blink of an eye. I discovered a very soulful connection with performance dancing at a very young age, dancing on the dance team at Samuel Clemens High School. I continued dancing through college as a Rangerette for Kilgore Junior College and on the pom squad at the University of Texas Austin. During the summers, I would travel around the US teaching Drill Team camps for a division of National Cheerleaders Association, developing a love for working with teenage girls. I found myself in Houston, TX, pursuing a sales career in the Information Technology arena, where I met my husband, Jerry. We have been together for 23 years, married for 20. He is truly th...Expand for more