a bit about. . . Holly Deyo
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Holly Drennan Deyo (of the O'Drennans of Galway, Ireland) was born in Japan on a US Army base. The family later moved to New York and then to Missouri where she spent most of her childhood. In 1983, Holly relocated to Colorado where she has lived except for a five year "visit" to Australia.
Holly's father was a Lt. Colonel for the U.S. Department of Defense and held a business degree with post graduate studies in law.
Her mother earned a B.A. in Art and was a dedicated homemaker. Growing up, Holly's mother always kept a stash of canned goods, packaged foods, toilet paper, disinfectant, candles, blankets, and other usable items in their cool crawl space. Despite considerable ribbing from her father, foods were neatly lined upon makeshift shelving, rotated into meals toward expiration and replaced upon consumption. When asked why she stored things, she never really pinned it down. It might have been still vivid memories of the Great Depression or that underlying sense of unease most of us have felt for some time. Holly graduated from the University of Missouri in Kansas City with a BA in English and understudies in Sociology and Geology. Though her first love was research and writing, this career was sidelined to run a family business for 14 years. Determined to put homemaking in the forefront like her mother did, she "retired" and embarked upon preparedness research. While "Downunder" in "OZ", two things snagged Holly: her husband, Stan Deyo, and "computer fever".
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