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Barbara J. Rohlehr
Barbara Jean Rohlehr was born in New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana, South America. She was the seventh child of eight children. Her early education was at the Ursuline Convent School, then at the All ...ver másBarbara Jean Rohlehr was born in New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana, South America. She was the seventh child of eight children. Her early education was at the Ursuline Convent School, then at the All ST Scots Elementary School. Secondary education was completed at the Berbice High School where she graduated with the Cambridge School Certificate and later taught school at one of the elementary schools for three years.
She studied nursing at the University College of the West Indies and graduated as a state-registered nurse. She later immigrated to Canada where she worked in Montreal at the Montreal General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital as a state-registered nurse.
She later served in West Africa as a volunteer nurse, working with Canadian University Services Overseas in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and serving with Oxfam, Save the Children, and Catholic Relief, spending a period of five years.
She returned home and spent several years breeding and specializing in exotic birds. Barbara is married, has one son and grandson, and is retired and continues to write short stories.ver menos