ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rowena Surguy Womack was born during the Great Depression with tuberculosis and re-contracted the disease at the age of twelve. She spent three years in isolation at the Irene Byron sanatorium in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, one of the youngest patients ever treated for pulmonary tuberculosis with pneumathorax treatment. Despite these early health setbacks, Rowena maintained a thankful spirit and determination to succeed, graduating in the top ten per cent of her high school class, excelling in speech, debate, writing, music and mathematics.
Rowena considered entering Purdue University to become a lawyer, but instead got married and eventually had six children, a daughter and five sons. Years later she became a single mother for fourteen years, and today she counts many grandchildren and great grandchildren in the family fold. A cancer survivor, she remains the thankful spirit, guided by her Christian faith. She finds joy in the smallest details of life too, much as a child might do. Rowena is the author of the children's books POPCORN, the new sequel POPCORN II, YELLOWSTONE MOOSE (English, French, and Japanese editions), GOOFUSUS ETC and TOMMY TWO SHOES. She has just completed a collection of love and Romance Poems for octogenarians, coming in 2021.