Kathleen Nickerson was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She's the eldest of six siblings. At the ripe age of only fifteen she met her soulmate and at sweet sixteen quit school, married and began to raise a family. She's been a wife of thirty-three years to the same man, mothered five children, and is the proud grandmother of eleven. In her twenties she helped her husband found a small sucessful family owned business. In her early thirties she recieved her GED.