Anna Merera Thesis

“Be compassionate. Be caring. Believe in yourself,” are words to live by according to Anna Nobile. On April 19, 1949, John and Kathryn Ferera welcomed their youngest daughter into their family. Anna Lorraine Ferera was born in St. Francis Medical Hospital in Lynwood, California. Her life is all about being loving, caring, and cheerful. Determined and strong-willed, Anna became very successful, and she now lives a very happy life.
Chaotic and crowded, Anna’s household contained five children that were each born a year apart. Aged oldest to youngest, her siblings are Eva, John, Mary, and Joe, and Anna was the youngest. This was a difficult task for her parents because they were both blind. At ten months old, Katherine, her mother, lost her
In her last semester, Anna got a job as a secretary for Greenwood Mills. Later after she graduated, she got a job as a sales representative with Talon Zippers. Out of all of the employers across the country, Anna was the only women. When Anna was twenty-four years old, Talon Zippers held a contest to see who could sell the most zippers, and Anna surprised everybody by winning. As a result, she was flown out to go watch the Super Bowl as a prize. While she was doing a report, Anna met her husband, Charlie Nobile, during a business program. At the time, he was a buyer for JC Penny, and Anna asked him if she could interview him. Shortly after the interview, they started dating. After five years, when Anna was twenty-nine, he finally proposed. The couple planned and paid for the whole wedding and got married in 1979. During the wedding Anna sang a song she wrote for her husband, and one of the lyrics was, “We share a love a love so strong, that's why I made this song, to ask him now in a simple statement, ‘what took you so long?!’” From Westminster to Roseville to Tupelo, a small town in Mississippi, and then finally to South Orange County, Charlie and Anna moved several times after they got married. During their adulthood, Charlie and Anna had three children. Their oldest two, Bonnie and Charlie, were adopted, and they are currently thirty-five and thirty years old. Kathy, their youngest daughter, is twenty-nine years old. All three children are unmarried, but Charlie’s wedding is planned to be on August 18, 2018. For Anna, the most major world event that she remembers in the bombing of the twin towers on September 11, 2001, and she describes this as, “the most