The topic of this life review project was my grandmother, Billie Jo Rivera. Billie Jo is an 82-year-old white female who was born on November 16, 1935 in Ft. Mead South Dakota. It was here that her father, William Frank Guyle was stationed in the U.S. Calvary, and her mother Wilma Ione Guyle was a Nurse. She grew up with one brother Walter, and one sister Mary Lou, making her the youngest of three children. In 1940 at the age of five her father changed duty stations, and the family moved to Junction City Kansas where she still resides to this day.
When asked about her early childhood Billie Jo stated, “I was just a kid playing at home, I distinctly remember I was never allowed to play in the basement though, because the basement was full of rattlesnakes.”. When it came to do chores, she would help her mother with dishes, and she would feed the dogs and cats. As children her older siblings were not around all that often, they were a product of her fathers deceased first wife. Because they had different grandparents than she did they spent a lot of time with them, leaving Billie Jo alone from time to time.…show more content… Xavier’s Catholic school where her siblings attended. She said that her mother did not like the idea of her going to a Catholic school because she was not catholic. But, after fighting with her mother she was able to become Catholic like her father and go to the Catholic school. Billie Jo had an interesting childhood to say the least, filled with some rather odd past times. For instance, after WWII there were German war prisoners on Ft. Riley in the prison that they had at the time. Seems how her dad was working with the soldiers up there she would go visit the
