Elaine grew up working in the family business, an old fashioned pharmacy. She learned a great deal about running a small business and developed a deep appreciation for her father’s skilled ways with people and chemistry.
After attending Historically Black Colleges, earning a CPA, working for Governor Bayh, and founding her own CPA firm Venita was called upon to run for IPS Commissioner. Her grown daughter said, “Why not?”
Joyce Anne Werry tells of attending a one-room-school-house in her home town of Hartford City, Indiana.
Ann tells of growing up in the small town of Somerset Kentucky; family camping, bike trips with her father, and her love of nature.