Joni (pronounced Johnnie) Berry grew up in Charleston, MO in the southeast part of the state known as the Bootheel. She graduated from Charleston High School and attended Southeast Missouri State U...view moreJoni (pronounced Johnnie) Berry grew up in Charleston, MO in the southeast part of the state known as the Bootheel. She graduated from Charleston High School and attended Southeast Missouri State University, in Cape Girardeau, MO. She married her long time ‘crush’, Robert ‘Bob’ Berry in 1979. Together they have one son, Brad, his wife, Kristi, and their beautiful sons, Bennett & Bryson.
Charleston, MO, with its many traditions, beautiful Victorian homes, flowering trees & shrubs, its close proximity to the great Mississippi River, as well as the people, offered a wonderful foundation for Joni’s imagination in writing her first book, What Should Have Been.
The Berry’s now make their home in Jackson, MO, where Joni continues to explore her imagination, putting word to paper, in hopes of writing a sequel to Libby’s story, What Should Have Been.view less