Geri Gittings:  

Life After graduating from Wausau Senior High in 1958, the following fall I went to work for Employers Insurance in their Art Department. I worked there for three years after which I moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, with Bill Plisch, from Wausau Senior High also, who at that time was my husband. I worked in Minneapolis for different art studios and advertising agencies as a commercial artist. In Minneapolis, after a divorce, I met and married Bob Wood, also a commercial artist, and he and I went to Kalispell Montana to 'paint the west and it's people'. We moved to Montana in the winter of 1968, arriving in Montana on January 2nd of 1969. While in Montana we traveled all over the Pacific Northwest going to all the Indian Pow wows, camping and sleeping with the Indians while getting reference material for our paintings. Along with Indian women and children I painted, I also painted commissioned portrats of people and animals. In 1987 I moved to Phoenix Arizona still working in my art profession. Shortly after moving there tho, I decided I had 'better get a real job for a living'. I was very fortunate to get a position at the Mobil Oil Corporation's Phoenix facility, as a stock accountant, which was accounting for all the gas that came through the pipeline, into storage, on to the trucks and delivered to the stations. I also had to make sure all the stations were billed correctly for the product they received. I stayed with them until I had worked there 15 years and was eligible for a pension and life long health...Expand for more