This is Pearl.
She is the “Pearl” in Project Bea and Pearl.
Pearl was born in Syracuse, New York in April of 1934. She was raised in the home her Belgium grandfather built at the turn of the century. Syracuse is cold county with an average yearly snowfall of 115 inches!!! As a young girl she told her mother she was moving to warmer country when she grew up. And indeed she did. She met and fell in love with a man that was bound for college in Tucson, Arizona. So she married him in 1954 and moved to the land of sunshine, warm temperatures and cacti. The plan was for her to work, her husband to attend school by day and work part time in the evenings. She landed a good job with the phone company. However, nothing goes as planned. She found herself in the “family way”. Corporate America in the fifties prohibited pregnant women to work. She disagreed with this policy and being the independent woman she is, she rebelled€¦she hid it from the company for many months and continued to work until they figured it out. This child was the first of six.
Pearl wears many hats.
We’ve established she’s a daughter, wife and mother. She also is a grandmother to twelve and a great grandmother to three. She’s a business woman who helps her husband in their communication company. She’s a teacher, a talented and gifted quilter who shares her skills and knowledge with others. She’s an avid reader and loves to travel with her husband. And most of all in regards to Bea, she is a caregiver, a responsibility that is always at the forefront of her mind and life. This brings us to why Project Bea and Pearl came to fruition.
Bea and Pearl are special women. I know them well, I belong to them.
Up next…the Problem at hand.
Up next…the Problem at hand.