Ann McCollough Cornelius was raised in Southern California. She held a variety of Administrative positions with major corporations in Los Angeles, California, Atlanta, Georgia and Tulsa, Oklahoma o...view moreAnn McCollough Cornelius was raised in Southern California. She held a variety of Administrative positions with major corporations in Los Angeles, California, Atlanta, Georgia and Tulsa, Oklahoma over the years.
On her return to Los Angeles from Atlanta, she met her husband, James Cornelius, in church. She was a legal secretary at Paramount Studios and he was an independent music publisher working with music legend Snuff Garrett. They were married in 1989, and soon after moved to twenty-two acres in Royse City, Texas where they built Country Lane B&B.
Ann has used her talent in writing for many of the companies where she worked. Her first poetry was published in 1992, and she began to write for Chansen Publishing, an advertorial magazine, in 2001. She also wrote a weekly column for the Rockwall County News for two years.
Her knowledge of the problems facing seniors comes from her work as a Benefits Counselor, a founding member of the Rockwall County Committee on Aging, and serving Meals on Wheels.
James and Ann were married twenty-five years. When he passed from Alzheimers disease, she moved to Oklahoma to live with her daughter, Julie Romine, and her family in the woods outside Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Ann also has a daughter in Owasso, Oklahoma, and a son in Fate, Texas, along with many grand and great-grand children.view less