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I was born on May 16th 1937. The first 4 years of my studies was at St. Mary's School Cheruvally. Then I moved to ChurchPark Presentation Convent Madras where my father was Major in the Indian Army. Then after a year he was transferred so I moved to St. Joseph's Convent Changanacherry in the boarding. I regularly took part in singing competitions for which I have received prizes. After 3 years I then moved again to Manimala School at St George's school so that I could stay at home with my grandfather, where I was for another 2 years. Later I joined St. Mary's school Kanjirapally where I did my 10th staying in the boarding, it was not far away from home. That summer the school had a drama called "Shajahan" and I participated in it. In my free time I learned cross-stitching. I was always interested in music, singing, and drama. I completed my inter mediate course at Assumption College Changanacherry, a two years course where I was in the college Ball badminton team. My father then retired from the army and joined the Indian railways in Bombay. Since he was in Bombay I joined for my degree there at Nirmala Niketan for a Homescience course.

I was married to Z.V. George on 22nd May 1958. He was the son of Mr. V.C Varkey and Mariamma from Edathua. He was then working at Standard Vacuum Company as Sales Officer, at Trivandrum. My oldest son George was born in April the following year. We then moved to Ciombatore where my daughter Anita was born in June of 1961. Kottayam was our next posting and my second son Shaji was born in 1963. In 1968 while we were in madras my youngest son Joseph was born. We lived in madras for 4 years from where we moved to Nagpur., where we lived for 13 years and experienced north Indian culture, learned some Hindi to get by used to have long 3 day journey's to go home every year for the summer.

George completed his engineering in Nagpur and my daughter did her dentistry too there, while Shaji finished school and Josie was in 7th when we moved to Coimbatore. George then moved to Management school in Jamshedpur. Shaji completed his college education in Coimbatore. We then moved to Ernakulam and in 1984 Anita was married to Joe Thomas son of Mr. & Mrs. M.E. Thomas, who live in Delhi.
n August 1984 my husband passed away and was laid to rest in Edathua his hometown. He was Assistant Regional Manager with Hindustan Petroleum in Ernakulam.

Josie later joined St John's Medical school to pursue his medical degree.

George is married to Neena daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.J Alexander and they live in Madras with their two children Karia and Tina.

Shaji is married to Merly daughter of Mr. And Mrs. T.V. Thomas. Shaji is in Bombay with Esso and has two children Pia and George.

Josie is married to Preeti, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Jose Tharayil. They are in the UK