Annette Gonzalez BA

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Caring for Aging Parents and Grieving over their Death and Dying Expert

Annette Gonzalez Quick Facts

Main Areas: Consultant on grieving, death/dying of parents, elderly caregiving
Career Focus: Author and Speaker

Annette Gonzalez is a lifelong Floridian and was raised in West Tampa, a Latin neighborhood in Tampa. She attended the University of South Florida where she graduated in 1970 with a B.A. degree in sociology. Soon after graduation she married Terry DeLisle and they had two sons, Jared and Jacques.

Annette's professional background includes positions in social work, real estate, business owner, PBS education director, president of a chamber of commerce and director of business development at an educational association.

In September 2006, Annette struggled with coping with the loss of her mother and then five months later, her father passed away. This is when she began to write and speak about her parents' deaths. What resulted was that Annette provided others who had lost their parents comfort and direction through her writing and speeches.

Annette believes that we need to treasure our parents while they are alive and honor them when they have passed.

Visit Annette's blog, http://www.marinasabundance.blogspot.com - in memory of her mother, Marina Gonzalez. She encourages those who have lost their mothers or whose mothers are in ill health to post comments.