My Favorite Christmas

Born to Yugoslavian parents and raised in the Apartment Housing lower East side of New York City. To Ryker and Harriet Holmes, immigrants from Yugoslavian immigrants parents. They had a passport and come over legally and checked often for authenticity two young people in love and ready for American citizenship married 1930 . And opened a restaurant in America. Catholic family is most common in this country.

Author DeeAnn Gorman, Christian Romance Novelist from Iowa. She has her degree in Human Services and a Minor in English literature. In 1989 attended Iowa writers Workshop for the summer. And won a poetry award from Poetry writers achieving a lapel pin to wear a flame on a book. She has A grown daughter and two grown sons, wonderful daughter in laws. Five cherished grandsons. Dog Mckenzie. DeeAnn has been married to her long-time love for years.
She writes Amish Mennonite Romance and Mystery books. Her ancestors on her fathers side Pennsylvania, Dutch and they decided not to be baptized into the Amish religion so when they left could continue visiting and not be shunned. Traveling down the Wisconsin River to Olin, Iowa where they purchased farms there.