Jennifer (Carter) Schieb

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Born in Plymouth Indiana, I don't remember much but sources told me my mother left me with my grandmother Nina Melissa Mckinney, Martin until I was about 2 years old. My mother was single. My mother told me that a man names Charles Durell Carter was my biological father; however, upon my mother's death another source told me that an uncle by marriage could be my biological father. I plan on taking a DNA test to find this out.

I grew up in Willoughby, Ohio. The only man I knew to be my dad was Fred W. Schieb. He was with me from as far back as I can remember. He adopted me at 16 and changed my name to Schieb. He was a good father to me. He taught me the difference between right and wrong and taught me ethics and what it takes to support a family. I am eternally grateful for his guidance and unconditional love.

My mother Patricia Faye Martin, Schieb was a person who faced a lot of adversity through her life but never talked about it. When it came to discipline, she wasn't exactly an understanding individual. She was strict and things had to be a certain way. I will say she wasn't lighthearted.

I went to elementary school at Lincoln Elementary. That school later shut down and, as of late, no longer exists. I went to Jr. High at Willoughby Jr. High and went to Willoughby South High for high school. If my parents were anything they were definitely planted where they wanted to live. Our big move when I was 12 or 13 was to a bigger house up the street on the same street I grew up on.

I was 8 years old when I found out I had older siblings from a previous marriage from my mother. She never went into detail about the marriage, just told me that it was a tumultuous marriage and her ex-husband Lewis ended up with the children. I later found out different, but this isn't about her. As it would have been, Jerry, Jack and Joanna, came to live with us in the little bitty house we had at the end of second street. My dad turned the attic into a bedroom for us girls, and the boys had the bedroom downstairs and mom and dad slept in the living room. Jerry was 16, Jack was 14, and Joanna was 12. I think they stayed with us a total of 9 months before mom sent them back to Texas. She wasn't capable of handling the issues they had because she really didn't know her kids anymore and they had some major issues when it came to authority. When I turned 12 Jack came back to live with us for a while, but mom and Jack were such different people, he ended up running away again and I never saw him again until I was about 35. I accidently found a letter he had written to mom from prison. Mom warned me to not go find him, but I was hardheaded and wanted some kind of connection. He was not an emotionally or mentally healthy person and I learned a lot of lessons from our encounter. I found Joanna once again and it did my heart good to know, that despite all the adversity she faced as a young person, she led a pretty decent life with her best friend and husband Dickie Lee Akin. They lived in Texarkana, TX and she remained with him until his passing in 2022. Jerry found me, and I tried to help him, but just like Jack, he had a lot of emotional and mental issues, and I was not equipped to help him. I had to ask him to leave, and I found out from a half sibling of his that he passed away in 2018 after a long stint in a mental institution. Jack lost his life in 2014 after jumping in a lake intoxicated. Sources told me that he got into a drunken fight with his son or half-brother and stabbed them; when he realized what he had done, He jumped to his death because he knew he was facing life in prison.

I joined the Army in 1985 and was on the delayed entry program so I didn't leave for my time in service until June of 1986. I went to basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC. I did my training at Old Tank Hill which had the reputation of being the hardest company on recruits, and it lived up to its name. From there I went to Ft. Gordon, GA and did my a.i.t. there. I went home for leave before I left for Weagan, South Korea and spent a year there. Then I went to Ft. Sheridan, IL which was on the other side of Great Lakes Naval Base and from there I went home. I rejoined the Army reserves after having my son and was in the reserves from 1989-1993.

I moved to Radcliff, KY, in March of 1991 and have lived in various parts of Kentucky since. I have gone back to Ohio on occasion to help with different family things, but Kentucky has been my home for going on 30 years now. I have 1 son, Andrew W. Schieb and 1 daughter Jessica L. Riley and they have blessed me with 7 grandchildren. I have battled everything from drug and alcohol addiction to mental and emotional issues left from my time in service; however, I keep going. I don't know what the future holds but I know this; being a grandparent has changed my life. My son joined the Marine Corps in 2007 and switched to the Army in 2018. He will be retiring from the service in just a couple of more years. He has married and has 5 children. My daughter graduated college after having 2 children with a man she has been in a long-term relationship with. I count my blessings every day and I don't take anything for granted. I'm sure I may add more later but for now this has been my life.

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