Leticia Traya-storms:  

Born in Makawao, Maui, third generation American of Visaya Filipino heritage, mom born in Lahaina, Maui, dad in International waters from PI(naturalized American). Grandparents immigrated from Negros Occidental, Phillipines to Haiku, Maui and created 17 siblings. Came to Honolulu at age 2, lived in Manoa, North Shore, Aiea, and Paoua Valley in Honolulu. After graduating from Roosevelt High, I worked at City Bank of Honolulu(downtown) as bookkeeper, then moved to California, attended Woodbury College for a few semester, studied Fashion Design. Came back to Honolulu in 1966 and worked at YMCA, Nuuanu and met my husband(German-French,Norwegian, Scotch-Irish) on blind date(he was on Bomb Squad in US Navy), moved to Seattle in 1969, worked at Bon Marche Dept. We had a son in 1970(we now have 3 grandchildren-9,10,16). We divorced in 1976 and I moved back to Hawaii, worked at Liberty House Dept Store, attended Medical Assisting Schcol studying Medical Assisting. In 1982, a friend from Roosevelt High sent for me to come to California where he was doing an Internship after getting his master in Psychology and I found a job I wanted at Cedars Sinai Medical Center where I worked for 9 years as Administrative Assistant in West Hollywood. On weekends, I attended Marymount Catholic College in San Pedro, California as a requirement for work in Dept of Pathology and Lab Med, Microbiology and succeeded in getting required credits to transfer to Seattle Pacific University matriculating my BS degree in General St...Expand for more