Chris, the eldest of five girls was born and raised in Walton, N.Y. a small farming community at the foot of the Catskill Mountains. Her father was a Physical Education teacher/coach, her mother owned and operated a Beauty Salon and together they were the proprietors of Walton Recreation Lanes.

In 1973 Chris and her family started visiting Florida’s West Coast during school’s winter breaks and soon extended it into the spring breaks as well. Upon graduation in 1980, Chris went on to attend Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, N.Y. where she majored in Secretarial Science. After attending only 1 year her family decided to make the move to Florida permanent and in August of 1981 the family packed their home and moved to the Cape Haze area.

Chris worked in various bookkeeping and accounting jobs until 1986 when she decided to do something different and joined the Boca Grande Club in the Housekeeping Department. After 8 years in Housekeeping she decided to accept the position in the Accounts Receivables and would stay there for 6 more years until she resigned in October 2000 to move to Forest City, Pennsylvania to get married.

While in Forest City she obtained a job quickly at the Forest City Nursing Center in the Accounts Payables and Billing Department for the Center’s Assisted Living facility. Only after two years in the heartless winters of living in the snow-belt region she traded her snow shovel for a sand shovel and moved her family back to Englewood.

In July 2003 Chris emailed to resume to a company in Boca Grande looking for a receptionist and to her surprise the company was Gasparilla Properties. Chris having worked previously with 3 of the 5 Company’s owners and acquainted with another she adjusted quickly.

Chris resides in East Englewood with her two sons, Corey (14) and Nicholas (4).