An 8th generation country girl, I was born In New Bedford, MA to Mary and Milton DeMoranville. I grew up in East Freetown, a small town just north of my birthplace. My education began in a little 2-room schoolhouse. After paying my own way and a whole lot of studying, I finished with a doctoral degree in Marine Ecology and majors in Biology, Oceanography, Secondary Education.
I've had a magical career that began with teaching Marine Botany at Kenyatta University in Kenya for 2 years. I came back to the USA and was hired as a State of Florida Marine Biologist for 2 years at the Florida Marine Research Institute in St. Petersburg, FL Next, I loved teaching Oceanography to classes of high school students, graduate students, and college science professors at the Wallops Island Marine Science Consortium, Eastern Shore VA. Finally, I retired after serving 25 years as a National Marine Fisheries Management Branch Chief, then as a National Ocean Service Senior Marine Ecologist and working diver. A highlight of my profession, was proposing and being awarded a government sponsored contract to conduct a 2,500 mile Scientific Expedition to the entire Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and back. We discovered over 100 new species and published 2 full-colored books on what we learned.

A few years before retirement, I decided to give my artistic side a try and began painting and selling my realistic wildlife and waterscapes. With my friend Lori Kagle, I opened the Art a la Carte Gallery in Occoquan, VA in 2010. After my husband died, I considered moving nearer to my son and grandsons. Darlene Hedricks, a good softball friend moved to The Villages and urged me to visit. I did, and my head spun with all she showed us. "It was all over she wrote..."
Next year, we rented in the Alhambra Village for two months and came back the following year for three months, but we wanted more. Gerald Bowles, my Villages Sales Agent patiently took us to visit available homes each year. The third year, I bought 2057 Palo Alto Avenue and became permanent residents in August 2019. Nine months later, we fell in love with a nearby Palo Alto home on a small lake and closed on it February 2020. Not able to part with my first Villages home, neighbors helped us move into the new home and set up my rental-to-be. Three days later, my first renter moved in. By the end of that month, the Covid-19 pandemic hit but The Villages has been following protocols, vaccinating, and the entire Palo Alto Club and our neighborhood has remained pretty safe and happy.