My+Favorite+Aunt+(Biography)

L.A. Joseph Fisher Biography November 16, 2011

My Favorite Aunt By far in my life one of my best family role models is my aunt Sandy Toon. Sandy is very close to me and my family. She is a very hard worker and a great leader. She is also very determined and does not like to give up anything she has started. She has also faced some very hard times in her life where she just had to keep going. Sandy was born into the Medley family. She was the oldest of six daughters. She and my mother, her sister, grew up as the leaders of the household because their parents worked. My mother soon solely became in charge of things like cooking dinner because Sandy soon started to also work after high school, being the oldest child in the family. She started working right after high school, so that she could afford to live on her own and support herself. Sandy was very determined to be successful and to raise a family early on. After she had her fourth child, she decided to attend college. She felt that her vocations in life were to be a nurse and a mother. She graduated from nursing school when she was 40-years-old. She then had her fifth and final child. She is currently a nurse at Baptist East Hospital. In her life, Sandy has gone through some very tough times. To her it was hardest when something big would happen and she would have to pick herself back up and keep going. An example of this is last year when my cousin, her youngest daughter, was in the hospital because she was critically ill. My aunt was extremely worried, but she had to pick herself up and keep going. The reason my aunt is so determined is because there are two quotes that she finds very inspiring to her. One is “God is love.” This quote makes her think about how God loves her because when everything else fails, God is still there. The other quote is “No matter what, pick yourself up and keep going. Just keep going.” This is one of her favorite quotes because she has had to do this many, many times in her life. As you can see, Sandy is a hard worker and great leader. You can also see how determined she has been in her life and she still is today. She has really lived through some tough times, but she picked herself up and kept going. I hope you can see why she is one of my role models.