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I was born in  Cumberland, Kentucky, December 1st, 1933. I lived there until I was nine years old. My mother, brother and I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida while  my father lived in a dormitory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was working  there and waiting for his name to
come up on a housing list. When it finally did we moved to Oak Ridge and lived into a little
flattop house  at 263 East Drive.  I have wonderful memories of Oak Ridge and lived there  from the time I was 10 years old until I graduated from high school. We  moved to Lenoir city, Tennessee that summer.  I went to college at  Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, Tennessee, and met my future husband, Phillip Meyrick Francis, who is from LaFollette,
Tennessee, while I was  there.  When he graduated and went into the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant, I  went with him as his bride.  We lived all over the world, having five  children along the way.  We have three sons and identical twin daughters.  The last child was born in Turkey, where we lived for 2 years. Our  tours of duty also included Alaska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Georgia,  Virginia and Kansas. My husband served in Korea and Viet Nam. When we lived in Virginia Beach, Virginia I wanted to help with the family expenses.  At  that time we had four teenagers and a 3 year old. I chose a career  selling real estate,
thinking I would have more flexible hours than an  8-5 job. I didn’t know then about all the weekends and evenings I would  have to work!  But we all managed someway and I worked in this field for 15  years, earning my Broker’s license there.  We moved to Naples,  Florida in 1979 with our youngest child who was 12 years old. All the other children were married and living lives of their own. I thought I had  retired from real estate but our oldest son was accepted into medical  school and I knew he would need our help financially. So I earned my Florida real estate license and started all over again.  I sold real  estate in Naples for ten years.  During this period we bought my  great-grandparents 1845 home in Dahlonega, Georgia.  It was a huge  challenge to restore it and I spent many hours driving up and down I-75 trying to oversee this project while still selling real estate in Naples. We  opened it as a Bed and Breakfast Inn in 1984 and tried hard for 10  years to hang on to it but everybody was making money there but us. We  had to either sell it or move there and run it.   We chose to sell it but it broke my heart. The Worley Homestead Inn is alive and well today.  My husband and I have been married for 58  years. We spend most of our  time in Naples, Florida, with our two  kitties. We have eight  grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Life is good!

Child of Appalachia

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Child of  Appalachia
ISBN 978-1-935271-94-9
6.14x9.21, 254 pages,  $14.95

Child of Appalachia tells the story  of Mitzi Hall Francis: her early years in Cumberland, Kentucky, her  journey through Florida to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and her eventual  purchase and restoration of her family homeplace - The Worley Homestead  Inn in Dahlonega, Georgia.  It also includes family photographs and stories, and the memoirs of her mother, Augusta Victoria Kerr Hall.

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Murder in New Mexico

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Murder in New Mexico

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GO HOME and Cook Your Husband a Good Supper!

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Go Home and
Cook your husband a good supper!

The Story of a Woman Selling Real Estate in the Early 1970's

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