Mother, real estate agent, business owner - enter ambulance driver. The family made a home in Madison County and established one of the first fire departments. “We did EMT work; we were all trained so we could go to automobile accidents and offer first-response care,” Elizabeth excitedly recalled. They would host community dances and raffles to raise money for fire trucks and ambulances.
As a city girl transplanted to the mountains of Western North Carolina, it was here Elizabeth decided to finish her college education. She enrolled at UNC Asheville to finish a degree in psychology. “My experience at UNC Asheville was wonderful, just wonderful.” Elizabeth reflected on the liberal arts curriculum, saying, “one of my favorite courses was humanities. I was so impressed, I never had humanities in my years in college before that, it wasn’t even a concept that a student would be required to take a humanities course.”
Elizabeth’s youngest of three children, Sergio, also decided to attend UNC Asheville. “Of all the places I have lived growing up, I chose UNC Asheville because I just loved the mountains,” Sergio said. “When I visited and drove around the school I loved the campus.”
After earning her bachelor’s degree, Elizabeth went on to a master’s degree and began teaching in Florida and eventually North Carolina. “My mother really wanted to be an educator,” Sergio said, “she is the hardest working person I can remember.” If Elizabeth wasn’t writing, she was reading, constantly feeding her brain with information. Sergio says to this day, his mother still has an appetite for learning and, “my guess is that she always knew in the back of her mind she wanted to finish college. She wanted to do that for the kids, but I think she also wanted to do it for herself."
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