GLORIA BROWN

BORN: Born in Crowell on February 10, 1947

RESIDENCE:3809 Preakness Ct., Cleburne, Texas (871-556-2258)

EARLY CHILDHOOD: Gloria was born iat the Foard County Hospital in Crowell (Foard) Texas. She is the sixth of nine children born to Jose Rios Brown and Josefina Valladares. During the summer of 1954, the family took a trip to work in Wisconsin picking cherries, coming down towards Illinois to work in the tomatoes fields picking tomatoes. During the next 6 years, from 1955-1961, she accompanied the family to the Greeley, Colorado area where the older members of the family worked in the beet fields. She was old enough to work the last xx years. This occurred from about May to September/October of each year.

EDUCATION: She attended Elementary School in the Crowell Independent School District (CISD) from the first through eighth grades graduating in May 196X. She attended Beauty School in Wichita Fall graduating in xx/xx/196x . She later earned her GED and attended Tarrant County Junior College in 1977.

MILITARY: Gloria did not serve in the military.

CAREER: After graduating from Beauty School, she worked as a beautician for xx years, working at __ and ___ in Fort Worth. She changed careers after a bad accident in which she sustained a whiplash injury. She went to work for Motorola in 19XX working in the __ department building __________. She also worked for ____ for xx years, dabbled in real estate for XX years, getting out altogether in 199x. She decided to become an entrepreneur, opening up a deli restaurant "RomaDeli" in 1995. She sold the business in November 2001. She worked for a short while at ____ until she could purchase her next business. In November 2003 they bought a Kwik Kar oil and lube business (817-556-2460) in Cleburne, Texas.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

MARRIAGE: Gloria met Mohammed (Mo) Riazati while working at Motorola in Fort Worth, Texas about 198X. She was married to Mo at the Zion Assembly of God Church on June 30 1984. The Reverend ______ performed the ceremony.

CHILDREN: Gloria has no children.

(2003)