Teacher welcomes 24 New Orleans relatives
Published: September 10, 2005
There are five generations currently living under Sheila Ross` roof and the Florida teacher expects more relatives — all Katrina refugees.
There are aunts, uncles, cousins, a niece or two, a grandmother, two dozen in all. Eight more are on the way from New Orleans. Ten family members are still missing.
Ross, who lives in the Lantana, Fla., area, told the Palm Beach Post she has received a lot of donations to help care for the evacuees and offers of places for them to stay. Meanwhile, she`s busily getting the kids enrolled in school.
The family members got out of New Orleans just ahead of the storm, traveling in seven cars with just the clothes on their backs. After a week in a Louisiana shelter, they reached Ross.
She and her husband Edwin flew some of them to Florida and the others drove. Sheila Ross, who took some time off from her job as a physical education teacher, said she is delighted her family is together again.
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