I was delivered by Dr Holzer at  Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis, Ohio on March 10, 1939.  I am the only child child of Dr Raymond and Elmora Boice. That is how I got my name! They put them together and got Ramora which should have been spelled Raymora. there was a typo error on my birth certificate! Later in high school when I was dating one particular guy after he asked how I got my name, he said. "Thank God you were not a boy! They would have called you Elmond"! I have never forgotten that either!

My mother had me when she was 37 because my dad was in Medical School at OSU and there was a rule that you were not allowed to marry while in Med school... so they were married secretly ... only my mother's mom knew.  They ran off to Eaton, Ohio and my mom joked "We have been eatin" ever since!".

I started piano lessons at the age of 7 and took for many years. While in high school I was a cheerleader for both football and basketball games for four years. I also was in the glee club. I sang local minstrels singing solos and weddings.  When I graduated from Pomeroy High School I had to give up my job as organist at our Lutheran Church to attend college. I could not take a pipe organ to college! Not enough room in my dorm room!

I graduated with a B.A. from Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio which is now a part of Miami University. Between my Junior and Senior year at Western I traveled with the Western students and alumni to Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Iran, India, Russia, Uzbekistan, Denmark, and Sweden. After graduating from Western, I went to Miami Valley Hospital for a year's training in Medical Technology. Now I had initials behind my name B.A. M.T.(ASCP). After training I remained and worked in the laboratory in both the Hematology and later Chemistry Depts. for 11 yrs. Then a group of us in the lab decided to apply for jobs in different hospitals in Honolulu. We loaded up our cars with all that we could and drove to California, put our cars on the Matson freight lines and flew to Honolulu.

I worked at St . Francis Hospital in the Hematology Dept for 2 yrs. We all lived in the same apartment building but worked in different hospitals and got together to Island hop to Maui during the Whaling Festival, visited the volcanoes on the Big Island, walked in black sand on the Black Sand Beach and took in all that the island of Oahu had to offer. 

A good looking Japanese fellow followed me back to Ohio and we married. There were no children of this union and he had a drinking/temper problem and was very homesick. We divorced and he went back to Honolulu.  I was working at Zipf Labs in Dayton upon returning from Hawaii where I was supervisor of the Chemistry Dept. Later I relocated to Columbus and worked at Consolidated Biomedical Labs in Dublin.

I married William A Young I from Pomeroy in 1977.  I had my first child Rayan E Young in 1978.  Like my Mom I became an "old mother" only I was 38. My son Billy came 18 months later in 1979. There are 40 yrs between me and my son's ages! 

While married we traveled a lot. We went on two cruises ie Mexico and the Caribbean, made 2 trips by car to California taking the Northern route and then the Southern route, we also went to Western and Eastern Canada , motored down to Florida a couple of times and just had to take the kids to Disney World.  There were shorter trips too.