Patricia Jo Grierson

PATRICIA JO GRIERSONAge 84Patricia Jo Grierson, was born on May 2, 1929. She grew up in Washington, DC. On May 8, 1948, she marriedErnest Leroy Grierson. They were married for 33 years until he passed away in 1981.Pat was a stay at home mom for a few years but times were lean in those days so she made the decision to go to work to help support the family. First, on a part-time basis, she worked weekends at the beach during the summer. This was a time when women were rare in the workforce but she found a full time job at Acacia Life Insurance Company where she worked her way from a file clerk in the data processing department to a computer systems analyst over her 40 year career there. This required a great deal of night time studying in addition to her full time day job and she still found the time for her family on weekends, making sure her daughters were kept busy, including a period of several years when they both were involved in the majorettes. She made sure they never missed a practice, parade or...