Heritage+Stories-Myers+Lexi

My Story; My grandmother was born November 28, 1934 in kittanning Pennsylvania. She described life back then as "uncomplicated", with no electronics other than a little radio. With no electronics, she would spend alot of her time outdoors with her one brother and two sisters. She lived in the country, with plenty open fields to play in, and no neighbors. When she was in highschool, she would wake up in the morning, wait for her older sister to go to school, then go to her room and wear her sisters clothes. After walking alone for two miles to school, her sister would not be very happy about my grandmother wearing her clothes. When she was twelve, she had her first job picking rasberries for 5 cents a quart. Even if that might not be much to us, she thought it was well worth walking a mile and a half to get there and back. When she was fifteen, she had her first real job at a woman's dress store in Kittanning on weekends for about $3.50 an hour. After she was out of highschool, she worked as a receptionist at a docter's office. October 1, 1955 she married a man named Abraham J. Myers, the first, my grandfather. When my grandfather was eighteen he bought a bus, with that bus he started A.J. Myers & Sons bus company, the bus company over the years has stretched over several locations in pennsylvania, and coach busses that go around the country. After being married for fifty- two years, he died in 2007, my dad and uncles carry on the businnes.